Understanding Ransomware
Ransom-Ware is a new form of malicious software or virus activity that has surfaced and can be very damaging. The information below could help protect you and your company from this aggressive threat. Due to the aggressive nature of this threat, traditional protection methods such as Anti-Virus software, Spam filtering and Firewall protection are often being bypassed . WHAT IS...
Read MoreHeartbleed FAQ
Heartbleed’s most frequently asked questions Answered here for you: Heartbleed is a vulnerability in the website security system called SSL that is used by hundreds of thousands of website worldwide, luckily the vulnerability is easy to fix for the website controller, but it’s taking time to get them all patched and different sites are being patched different speeds. The most...
Read MoreEnd of XP and Office 2003
Windows XP and Office 2003 end-of-life April 8th 2014 As you may have heard, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP and Office 2003 effective Tuesday, April 8th. Why is this a big deal? No more security patches: Criminals will be leveraging devices running Windows XP and Office 2003 as an easy entry point into computer networks. Why? Because Microsoft will no longer be releasing security patches...
Read MoreCanadian Anti-Spam Legislation
The team here at Outhouse IT Recently asked our outsourced legal Department at Conduit Law“what do we need to know about the Canadian anti-spam legislation that takes affect on July 1st?” The answer was so concise we wanted to share it with you so we asked the team at Conduit Law if it would be OK for us to redistribute their Small Business Law newsletter to our Small Business IT...
Read MoreData-stealing malware targets Mac users
There is a virus attacking Mac users that infects your computer and steals copies of your data files including .pdf documents. The virus has been named OSX/LaoShu-A. The way to protect yourself is to not click on any links in email messages that you don’t recognize. Historically, Mac users were targeted less often than Windows users. However, now that many top level executives have switched to...
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