“Silver Sparrow” has infected nearly 30,000 Macs worldwide—and has been dubbed a “reasonably serious threat” by researchers at Red Canary, but those same security experts say they still aren’t exactly sure what the virus plans to do. It’s a unique threat, in that the malware runs an hourly check to a control [...]
Business Machine Technologies (BMT) is excited to announce that CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, has named BMT to its 2021 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category. This annual list identifies top North American solution providers who have innovative approaches to Managed Services [...]
We’ve been recommending LastPass as a password manager for years now. It is highly rated and the import premium security features such as 2-Factor Authentication support & location awareness have always been free. However LastPass just released news on some important changes, effective March 16, LastPass Free users will [...]
More bad news: your password has likely been leaked online. This recently announced breach, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches'' (COMB), doesn’t appear to be a new breach; rather, as the name suggests, it’s a compilation of multiple breaches. Unique to this breach, the mammoth compilation of hacked data was [...]
Want Conversations Kept Private? Check Out Signal Secure Messaging App Messaging App Signal has gained recent popularity as one of its biggest competitors, WhatsApp, announced it would require data sharing with its parent company, Facebook, beginning February 8. Signal is a free, privacy-focused messaging and voice talk app you [...]
Say Goodbye to Phishing, Malware, and Ransomware with Enhanced Link Protection Did You Know? BMT recently added Email Link Protection services to our portfolio, through our partnership with Appriver, a Zix company. The service is being provided for FREE to our IT Essentials Managed Service Clients as our aim [...]
Americans were victims of identity theft 13 million times in 2019, losing $16.9 billion, Javelin Strategy & Research found. The crimes involved included credit-card fraud, misuse of Social Security numbers and full-on impersonation. Account takeovers were up 72% over the previous year, and openings of fraudulent checking and savings accounts [...]
According to a recent IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, small businesses have been hit especially hard by data breaches. Their losses average over $2.5 million, which can be significant for a company making $50 million or less in annual revenue and make survival after the breach difficult. [...]
BMT is excited to announce a new resource recently added to bmtcorp.com. You can now access our library of video tutorials on our website, https://bmtcorp.com/video-resources/. Free Resources to Support a Range of IT Needs Our educational video resources range in topic, supporting a number of IT needs. Tutorials include: [...]
With digital hacking incidents on the rise, many IT professionals have lost focus on the tried-and-true method of attacking physical security. Criminals know security professionals put most of their eggs in the cyber basket and will often resort to the old-fashioned break-and-enter attack from inside. Recently, a flaw was [...]
Now more than ever, adopting everyday practices to secure your workstation should be a priority. One of the questions we frequently get asked is, what should I be doing with my workstation at the end of the day? What Should You Do? We highly recommend users sign out of [...]
Windows Server 2008 servers will no longer boot if prerequisites aren't installed before applying the out-of-band KB4539602 update released by Microsoft on February 7 to patch a wallpaper bug. After being deployed on machines running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the boot file will be deleted and the [...]
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