How to Handle BYOD With the Whole Team Working at Home
If there is one thing the lockdown has taught us, it’s that BYOD is a possibility. Nearly anything is possible when there’s no other alternative. Teams that had been approaching the idea of remote work, mobile workforce, and employee-provided devices with caution are now finding themselves with whole teams at home with only the devices they own personally. Continue Reading
The Ultimate Zoom Security Guide for Meeting Hosts – Pt 2
Don’t Share Meeting IDs in Screenshots
When you take a screenshot of your Zoom meeting, the meeting ID, and some other private information about the meeting is shared. If your meetings aren’t password-protected, then hackers could use just one screenshot to infiltrate and zoom-bomb your room. Continue Reading
Social Hacking Tactics During the Coronavirus
In a time when businesses and individuals are stepping up and helping their neighbors, the true nature of a hacker really shines through. Right now, businesses are offering sick-leave, donating medical supplies, and some are even opening their doors as supplemental hospitals. Professionals are either risking their lives to help others or are dutifully working from home to help contain the virus spread. Continue Reading
Power Your Work-at-Home Employees With Remote Desktop (RDP)
At BWS Technologies, we are looking at a global workforce that has been forced by COVID-19’s threat to a new focus on working at home (WAH). This novel virus started in China, and, as of late March 2020, has impacted more than 189 countries and territories. There is no disputing the need for social isolation, and there is a need for public and private workforces to be innovative without decreasing productivity. Continue Reading
11 Essential Ways to Secure BYODs and Protect your Workplace Network
From small businesses to international enterprises, the BYOD trend is a budget-smart and employee-flexible policy that can seriously expand your workforce capabilities. BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. It means that employees can use their own phones, laptops, and tablets to access work data and the workplace wifi network to do their job. BYOD saves the company money on providing devices and allows employees to use the devices they are most familiar with, and prevents having to juggle both personal and work devices. Continue Reading
5 Important Facts to Know About Juice Jacking to Protect Your Data
Juice jacking is a serious threat to people going about their normal business and simply trying to charge their devices in any public space. You would never even think it was something that could happen unless you’re looking out for it. Here are some important things you need to know about juice jacking and how it can cause people to damage your devices and steal your personal information. Continue Reading
19 Examples of Lines Hackers use for Social Engineering Attacks – Part 2 of 2
“This video is soooo funny. Just click the link and you’ll see what I’m talking about. OMG so cute!”
A personal contact approach is often used when hackers just want you to click the link. Many people don’t think twice about clicking a funny “youtube” link from a friend or relative to lift their spirits at work. But if the email address is unusual, don’t. Besides, why aren’t they sharing it with you on Twitter like usual? Continue Reading
19 Examples of Lines Hackers use for Social Engineering Attacks, Part 1
Hackers will do anything to hack your network, steal money, or gain access to sensitive data. Hackers are also incredibly lazy. While they could compete with you in single cybersecurity combat; your firewalls vs their blackhat skills, they’d rathe take the coward’s way and trick an employee into breaching security for them.
This is known as a social engineering hack; When a hacker uses phone, email, or chat to fool an employee into using their own access to expose the network to malware, wire money, or send over sensitive information. The reason it works is beacuse hackers are good at coming up with a con-artists’s line that convinces staff members that they are legitmate despite any warning signs.
The best defense against this type of attack is to know what’s coming. not only that clicking links and doing unconfirmed favors is bad, but the types of lines that hackers use and why they have worked in the past. So let’s dive right into the psychology and methods of the social hacker. Continue Reading
Windows 10 Upgrade: Here’s What You Need to Know (Time Sensitive!)
If you use Windows 10 as the operating system on your office’s computer(s), then you may have heard talk recently of upcoming updates that are anticipated to be released sometime in late May or early June. Whether you have already downloaded a Beta version of this update, or you are anticipating its release, you may naturally have questions about what this update means for you, and you may even be wondering why this update is taking place, and how it could ultimately affect you and your business. To help ensure that you are ready for the latest update to the Windows operating system when it arrives, here is an overview of everything you need to know about the Windows 10 update.
Whaling and Spearfishing: Targeting the Top People
Most phishing email goes after mass targets. It’s not particularly well-crafted, but the senders expect that if they hit enough mailboxes, some victims will open the attachment or visit the malicious website. A growing portion, though, targets specific companies or individuals with carefully crafted messages. It’s called spearphishing. When it’s aimed at high-profile individuals or large assets, it’s also called whaling — going after really big fish. (All right, a whale isn’t really a fish.) Continue Reading