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Masks & COVID-19

Let’s take a few minutes today to talk about cloth masks. This article is not a red/blue black/white article. The central conclusion right up front: we don’t know. We don’t […]

You’re one of 22,802,117 people pwned in the db8151dd data breach

I get these emails with some regularity. I’ve kept my same email address for about ten years now and so there are a lot of chances for my records to […]

Knox County Plans to Opens Up

This post skips numbers completely, we will have an abbreviated post later for that. Instead, we focus 100% on Knox County’s plan for re-opening. Spoiler: we like it. Knox County […]

Special Post: Re-opening Tennessee

Governor Lee just finished his daily media briefing during which he stated two important things: He will extend the stay-at-home order through April 30th He plans to re-open the economy […]

Guidance for Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus

How should employers plan to respond to a Coronavirus outbreak? There are several protocols the CDC has recommended we follow in order to prepare our work environments for such an […]

Don’t Lose Sleep; Have a Plan

“How much sleep should I lose over this?” I’d just finished going over some areas of high risk for this customer, some projects that had been delayed, appropriately up until […]

Yahoo! Breach Settlement Recap

Yahoo! was hacked multiple times in the 2010’s. In the worse case, literally every single account was compromised. If you had opened a Yahoo! account before 2016 your info — […]

Another IT Provider Hacked

We just finished writing about an IT provider of managed services in Colorado who was hacked, and in turn all or most of their customers were hacked as well. Well, […]

IT Provider & Its Customers Hacked

Krebs on Security writes about a hacking incident in Colorado late in 2019: A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack that […]

How are you at Risk?

It’s time to make public a conversation that has been brewing inside the IT and managed services industry for most of the last year but has largely not broken out […]