Blog / Outsourcing IT Support During Labour Shortages Ad for IT support Outsourced IT support is useful when qualified personnel are hard to find. As the economy slowly recovers in the wake of the pandemic, many business owners are again struggling with employment concerns. It’s not a labour glut resulting from shutdowns though; this time many industries are experiencing a shortage of qualified employees. Labour shortages aren’t […] August 12, 2021
Blog / Homewood Health Data Breach Data Breach How NOT to handle a data breach. The other day I received an article about a data breach impacting a number of Albertans. Homewood Health had a large amount of its data stolen and sold on an internet marketplace. It took some digging but I eventually found a bit more information about the situation, but there doesn’t […] August 10, 2021
Blog / Have a plan for dealing with Ransomware It’s unfortunate to say but ransomware has become so pervasive that it’s become a fact of life in the world of computer security. It’s not a question of if you’re going to have a ransomware infection, it’s when. Now this doesn’t mean adopting a defeatist attitude, but it does mean recognizing the reality of the […] August 03, 2021
Blog / Five Microsoft Apps Everyone Should Know About They’re more useful than you might expect for being mostly unknown. Microsoft is a household name synonymous with the world’s most popular operating system, Windows, and a host of other well-known applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams (among others). Some of our more tech-savvy readers will also know about other services like […] July 29, 2021
Blog / Cryptojacking: A Brief Look at a New Online Threat hacker performing cryptojacking In order to effectively communicate with people, it’s important to be able to speak the same “language.” This is true regardless of who you’re speaking to or what you’re talking about. Two botanists debating the best soil composition for growing drought resistant flowers are going to use very different language than two neighbours chatting about […] July 27, 2021
Blog / Have you heard of a little thing called juice jacking? Public charging station juice jacking target Computers change quickly. The language used for computers also changes. When new attack methods are found, sometimes the old ways of describing things no longer work. Take the terms ‘Virus’ and ‘Anti-Virus’ for example. These were originally used to describe any and all malicious pieces of software. Over time, as new and more varied types […] July 20, 2021
Blog / Getting Better Returns From Your IT for Small Businesses Keyboard button representing better returns on IT for Small Businesses Investing in information technology is critical for businesses looking to stay competitive, regardless of their size. However, when it comes to IT for small businesses, it’s important they extract as much value as possible from their investment. Unfortunately it’s all too easy for small business owners to make some common mistakes when investing in new […] July 15, 2021
Blog / PrintNightmare Has Become a True Nightmare A computer on fire because of PrintNightmare The patch that wasn’t a patch. Last week we did an article about a vulnerability nicknamed PrintNightmare. I described things a bit but also gave reassurances that a patch was in the works, which was duly released late last week. Sadly, the patch Microsoft released didn’t actually fix the vulnerability. Shortly after the patch was […] July 13, 2021
Blog / PrintNightmare isn’t about a printer jam Windows’ print spooler is an unpatched risk. Do you remember the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability from a few months ago? The earliest attacks on it were detected approximately 12 minutes after the announcement that it existed. The reason was simple; the number of potential targets was in the hundreds of millions of computers, the attack was […] July 06, 2021
Blog / No TRINUS clients at risk from Kaseya VSA attack As you may have heard, the Kaseya VSA software platform was the victim of a serious and ongoing cyberattack. Please be advised that TRINUS does not use any Kaseya products and none of your machines have been compromised due to this high-profile attack. Kaseya VSA is a remote access tool used by some managed IT […] July 05, 2021

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