by Jarra Gruen | June 20, 2018 | Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Cyber Security | 0 Comments

In what has become a recurring theme in the digital currency industry, another cryptocurrency exchange platform has suffered a cyber intrusion. Suspected cybercriminals have hacked Bithumb, the South Korea-based exchange platform.

by Jarra Gruen | June 11, 2018 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, internet, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The policy’s fate was sealed back in December 2017, when FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order was approved in a 3-2 vote along party lines. Pai’s order, which goes into effect today, rolls back the net neutrality protections that were put in place by former chairman Tom Wheeler. They promise — in name, at least — unrestricted access to online content minus the burden of regulation. But in fact, the new ruling clears the way for massive internet service providers to do practically whatever they like — including paid prioritization, throttling, and otherwise messing with traffic as it moves across the internet. It will take a long time to see the practical effects of the new rules, but make no mistake: this is a big deal, and it’s the first step in a long, slow process that will reshape the internet in very ugly ways.

by Michael Trachtenberg | May 31, 2018 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, New Technology | 0 Comments

By Michael Trachtenberg, CTO Today’s tech world is primarily infatuated with one thing -- security. That is for good reason. With the number of breaches and data privacy violations, it is evident that a focus on security is long overdue in the...

by Marc Lande | May 27, 2018 | Compliance, GDPR | 0 Comments

  Five steps to take after the GDPR deadline and how to become compliant  It is OK if you are not completely GDPR compliant after the May 25th deadline. In fact, Gartner predicts that by the end of 2018, half of all businesses affected by GDPR will...

by Marc Lande | May 25, 2018 | Cyber Security | 0 Comments

  At least half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries around the world have been infected by a sophisticated botnet, in preparation for an alleged planned cyber attack on Ukraine. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

by Jarra Gruen | May 18, 2018 | Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Microsoft, Office 365 | 0 Comments

With the rapid expansion of Office 365, more and more threats can emerge within its infrastructure, particularly via email. This is due in part to the size and ease of compromising Office 365 accounts and comes to the detriment of the same broad audience among which Office 365 has seen such massive adoption.

by Jarra Gruen | May 14, 2018 | Cloud Computing, Did You Know?, New Technology | 0 Comments

The proliferation of devices and the want to consume data without any lag is pressing the need to bring data centers closer to customers, thereby, driving the necessity of edge computing. Edge computing, which complements the cloud offerings and...

by Jen Nguyen | April 19, 2018 | Did You Know?, New Technology | 0 Comments

A quick update from VMWare regarding General Support.

by Jarra Gruen | April 4, 2018 | Compliance, Did You Know?, GDPR | 0 Comments

In order to make this process more manageable, MDS has come up with 10 actionable steps that your organization can take now in order to avoid the substantial fines that come along with non-GDPR compliance.

by Jarra Gruen | March 30, 2018 | Compliance, Cyber Security, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

The alarm bells were blaring this week at Boeing. In the early hours Wednesday morning, computers on the aerospace giant’s network were being attacked by the WannaCry virus.