MDS Computer Solutions, Inc.

06/20/2019

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-city-paid-600k-hackers-shows-us-unprepared-for-threat-2019-6

You need to be doing off-line backups. Questions? Call us now, not after you are infected.

Riviera Beach's city council voted to pay the money after an attack in May disrupted services including its email network and 911 dispatch system.

12/20/2017

10/18/2017

Sonicwall says their routers that include wireless capabilities are not affected by "KRACK"

KRACKs, or key reinstallation attacks, can theoretically be used by attackers to steal sensitive information from unsuspecting wireless users leveraging fundamental flaws in the WiFi standard.

10/16/2017

WPA2 protocol used by vast majority of wifi connections has been broken by Belgian researchers, highlighting potential for internet traffic to be exposed

10/14/2017

As of IOS 11.0.3 self-signed certificates are no longer being accepted for exchange active sync.

Please contact us for a reasonable cost solution for a publicly accepted SSL certificate.

09/19/2017

For those of you that use CCleaner. Some versions had a backdoor.

Legitimately signed but backdoored versions of the popular CCleaner utility were available for download from the developer's servers for nearly a month.

09/16/2017

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0275-place-fraud-alert

How to place an initial fraud alert on your credit report to make it harder for an identity thief to open other accounts in your name.

09/16/2017

AAA northeast members are being offered free basic credit monitoring.

https://northeast.aaa.com/membership/benefits/id-theft-monitoring.html?cmpid=int_eml_out_mxx-0917-id-thft

They offer a premium service also at a reduced cost.

Also, placing a 90 day freeze on your credit reports might be a very good idea. Please NOTE this is not permanent, those cost $'s. Do it with one and they are supposed to inform the other two. I tried via Equifax and their system is down. No surprise.

TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289
Experian: 1-888-397-3742
Equifax: 1-800-525-6285

Regularly monitoring your credit report is a great first step toward safeguarding your identity, but it isn't enough as identity theft can take on many forms. For a nominal fee of $8.95 a month, get ProtectMyID Deluxe, a product with special features including ChildSecure and Internet Scan. Or choos...

07/09/2017

https://www.mysonicwall.com/sonicalert/searchresults.aspx?ev=article&id=1057

This week, SonicWALL Threats research team has received reports of yet another ransomware called Fenrir. This ransomware purports to be an Adobe Reader file and appends an extension to encrypted files using the victim computer's HWID . Infection Cycle: This Trojan uses the…

05/03/2017

03/13/2017

Thought for today (and every day!)

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

03/12/2017

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