Our Insights

How much do Facebook Apps know about you? Privacy has always been a concern when having a social media profile. Major platforms generally require your Full name, Email Address, and Date of birth before you can sign up for an account. That information will help verify your identity and ensure you are a real person and not a bot account.

We lock our house when we go out; we lock our car when we park it; but is our network locked and protected from the bad guys when we are not looking? What about when we are looking?

One common service request type that our team hears regularly from our customers involves email delivery. Customers report receipt of unsolicited mail from their own domain, or they report that their outgoing mails to external recipients aren't successfully received, or their mails go to the recipients' junk mail folder. And there's a simple fix that helps address both scenarios most of the time.

Over the last two years there has been a growing number of Ransomware attacks happening all over the world. We should learn of the dangers and how to avoid getting affected by it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of innovative technology. Blockchain, in particular, is fascinating. The promise of a decentralized digital currency has incredible potential for the worlds economies, fundamentally changing the way we can trade and transact. But blockchain currency also has a dark side - one that has increasingly emerged as of late - the power to hold data ransom in exchange for untraceable payment in Bitcoin. The future potential Bitcoin is now being overshadowed by transactions being conducted on the dark web by hackers converting bounty generated from ransomware. The FBI estimated ransomware to be over $1.6 billion US in 2016. Many estimates claim that could be double or triple the volume in 2017.

Over the past few months, we have seen a significant increase in the volume of Phishing emails being sent globally. The trend is expected to rise and users should be prepared and educated on how to identify emails from what is legitimate or not.