Threat and Risk Assessment is the First Step in Safeguarding Your Network —Michael Fowler Sophisticated networks of greedy, malicious cybercriminals are proliferating around the world and across the Internet. They constantly probe corporate and government networks of all sizes, looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit to steal data, identities, and money. Therefore, your organization must […]
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Take an exclusive look at our press release on Hakeem Thomas! Winchester, Virginia, June 12th—Hakeem Thomas of Winchester-based Netmaker Communications has been named 2023 Volunteer of the Year by Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Thomas received the honor during a ceremony held on June 2nd. Among his volunteer activities, Thomas was recognized for mentoring Bloomsburg undergraduates;
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned about a significant upsurge in smartphone SIM swapping. SIM swapping, or SIM hijacking, is nothing new, but the FBI issued the alert because of a massive leap in reported cases. “SIM” means subscriber identity module; it’s the small, removable chip card used in cell phones. Each SIM
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Most people spend a lot more time looking at their phones than at their desktop screens. Cyber-criminals know this, and they’re increasingly targeting their victims through SMS phishing, or “smishing.” “SMS” stands for “short message service” and is the technical term for the text messages you receive on your phone. In smishing attacks, criminals use
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Email Phishing Is So Dangerous Because It Targets the Mind Instead of The Machine During the past several months, the world has witnessed a spike in email-phishing occurrences—cyber-attacks designed to exploit vulnerabilities naturally inherent in human psychology. Hackers began using the term phishing in the mid-nineties to describe a kind of “email angling”—sending out masses
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The Internet of Things began humbly enough when a scientist connected a toaster to the internet back in 1990. The term was coined in 1999 to describe this process of physical objects being connected to the internet. 24 years on, IoT devices are rapidly becoming pervasive in our society. From Amazon Alexa to smart lightbulbs
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Cyber criminals never take a day off. And during the holiday season, employees can be distracted, letting their guard down and forgetting their security training. This time of year, even IT-security teams can get careless about credentials, more prone to falling for phishing attacks, and somewhat lax about monitoring their networks for anomalies. The following
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Remote work has completely shifted the landscape for business communication, both internally and externally. We’ve been introduced to different communication platforms which all require different logins, apps to download, systems to learn, and so on. But what if all of these platforms were combined into one? Luckily, the 3CX Phone System makes this possible. What
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Over the past decade, cyber-attacks have become much more prominent and vicious than ever before. Phishing isn’t the only type of cyber-attack, but it is one of the most common. What exactly do these attacks entail? How can you avoid them? Today, we’re going to cover what phishing is and how you can protect your
Business VoIP systems have become increasingly popular over the past decade due to the advances in the technological industry and the rising costs of maintaining older analog phone technology. The FCC is requiring that the old copper dial-up technology be retired by commercial telephone companies by the summer of 2025. With the sum of these
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