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Walmart.com Phishing Scam

Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually ‘high quality’ phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate site: “There was a false email sent to a number of people this morning claiming to be from Walmart.com. This email looks like a confirmation of…

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Living Social Security Breach

Living Social breach leaks 50mil user credentials Attackers breached Living Social’s network and made off with the personal info of over 50 million users. The stolen information included things like e-mail addresses, dates of birth, and hashed password. Though the passwords were hashed, attackers can still leverage brute force attacks to figure out the weaker…

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More Security Patches for Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash Player displays interactive, animated web content called Flash. Although Flash is optional, 99% of PC users download and install it to view multimedia web content. It runs on many operating systems, including mobile operating systems like Android. In a security bulletin released yesterday, Adobe announced a patch that fixes four critical vulnerabilities in…

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Is Your Data Backup Solution Working For You?

We deal with a variety of businesses and each has unique needs when it comes to protecting their data. One thing is common between all of them; if they lost all their data they would likely lose their business entirely. It’s a fact. A majority of businesses who experience a critical loss of their data…

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Microsoft Patch Time Again

According to the latest Microsoft Advanced Notification page, seven security bulletins will be released next Tuesday. The bulletins will include updates to fix security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer (IE), Silverlight, and some of their server Software. They rate more than half (4/7) of the bulletins as Critical, which typically means remote attackers can…

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Another Critical Java Update

Yesterday, Oracle released yet another emergency Java update to fix two critical vulnerabilities in the popular web plugin. By enticing you to a web site with malicious content, attackers can leverage these flaws to execute code on your computer, with your privileges. If you are an administrator on your computer it’s game over. That’s why…

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Password Security

We commonly find that people are using insecure, easily-guessed passwords. The most frequent explanation is that the password is “easy to remember.” The trouble, of course, is that passwords which are easy to remember are also easy to guess. But when you institute a series of rules and requirements for secure passwords, what usually happens…

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It’s hurricane season. Is your e-mail protected?

Well, we’re in the middle of hurricane season and thought it would be helpful to review the built-in continuity features of Acarté MailProtection. Here are the highlights: As always, please do not hesitate to contact your Acarté account rep or our support team if you have any questions. Not using our mail protection service yet? Find…

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Do You Need That Extended Warranty?

Whenever we configure a new desktop, laptop or server for our small business customers one configuration option that often needs discussion is whether or not to purchase the extended warranty. The answer differs based upon the system being purchased. Servers – We typically recommend the maximum available warranty with 7 day, 4 hour service if…

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An Inexpensive Upgrade That Can Pay Off Big

It seems that no matter how new, how powerful, how state of the art an employee’s computer might be, they’ll always seem to find something to complain about. Maybe they just feel that the computer is simply too slow… or that the Internet takes too long to find pages… or that email doesn’t seem to…

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