Cortex Managed Solutions

05/13/2021

Ransomware is likely the most serious cybersecurity threat to the U.S. and on its current trajectory, the problem will only get worse in the years ahead.

The cyberattack that knocked offline an essential U.S. gasoline pipeline shows how the dangerous, professional-scale hack-for-ransom threat is spreading rapidly.

02/11/2021

7, yes, SEVEN screens

An absolute unit.

01/06/2021

2020 was a productive tech year in Birmingham, AL.

Tim Cook meeting with Odessa Woolfolk, founding board chair of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Photo by Pat Byington Despite ups and downs, 2020

12/28/2020

12/09/2020

Fun, new setting from Apple!

It's one way Apple is using Shazam, which it acquired in 2018 for an estimated $400 million.

12/02/2020

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced new Mac instances for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), enabling developers to natively run macOS in Amazon Web Services for the first time.

11/04/2020

Have you heard a crackle in your AirPod pros? Here's how to contact Apple to get them replaced.

Are your AirPods Pro earbuds making weird noises? You’re not imagining it — and you’re not the only one. Just a few months after Apple started shipping AirPods Pro, some users started noticing that one or both of their earbuds were rattling or crackling. The noises would reportedly get …

10/23/2020

As we head into the holiday seasons, be especially careful with even more sophisticated phishing scams passing by spam filters.

Scam artists are getting so good at creating realistic-looking phishing emails that some are getting past Gmail’s spam filters. Although most of us have been trained to spot suspicious email messages, some (like the one above) look like they could be from companies like Amazon.

08/27/2020

Microsoft teams to introduce Live transcript feature!

Microsoft has announced in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that the Live Transcription feature is timed for a rollout beginning in September, and it’s expected to complete in early October.