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Tips for Motivating and Retaining Good Employees
November 8th, 2019 | Erick Simpson | Managed Services Blog
In today’s competitive economic environment, with historically low unemployment and high demand for qualified talent, it can be a challenge to motivate and retain good employees. While you may be unable to keep up with competitive salaries, bonuses and other cash - Read More
 
Mini Class: Social Media Super Charge – starts Tomorrow
November 6th, 2019 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
Automate your social media marketing. Presented by Karl W. Palachuk.Click for DetailsI create about 125,000 social media touch points every month. How is that possible? I’ll show you exactly what I do. Join me live!There are three pieces to a successful scheduling and automation process. I - Read More
 
Two New Recorded Seminars in the Community
November 5th, 2019 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
Over in the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community, we posted two new seminars:The Execution Gap - How to get out of your own way and get things doneandStreamline Your Managed Services BusinessThe Execution Gap – Audio ProgramExclusive to the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community100% NEW - Read More
 
Save Your Money: There Is No One-Time Miracle
November 2nd, 2019 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
I have seen a certain kind of desperate spending creeping into our industry. It's not completely new or unique to our industry, but I believe it's becoming more common. Here's what I mean.Sometimes,  you just need to take action, and you don't know what to do. So you decide to try just about - Read More
 
Computer Baselines
November 1st, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
    Security, for many, seems hard to do right.   I know that we all think about firewalls, patch management, antivirus and physical security.   But I like to cover an area that does not get focused on by most companies.     Baseline and - Read More
 
Apps Apple App Store that are infected with clicker trojan malware.
October 28th, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
    Wandera’s threat research team has discovered 17* apps on the Apple App Store that are infected with clicker trojan malware. The apps communicate with a known command and control (C&C) server to simulate user interactions in order to fraudulently collect ad revenue.The - Read More
 
Adware Campaign Affects Millions
October 28th, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
    Smartphones have become the icon of our modern technological society. They are so prevalent that app development has grown exponentially in recent years in the struggle to become the next Facebook or Pinterest. The phrase “There’s an app for that” truly - Read More
 
Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi
October 22nd, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
NIST   National Vulnerability Database  - CVE-2019-17666 Detail                         Current Description - Read More
 
New malware strain that allows the adversary to deploy man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on TLS traffic.
October 21st, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
   The vast majority of websites these days have Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) enabled, adding a layer of security that protects our communications against eavesdropping and tampering. It is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS), the current standard for secure web - Read More
 
New Phishing Emails Attack
October 21st, 2019 | Jay Ferron | My information Resource
  Phishing emails typically provide some obvious tells to their malicious nature. However, when a    phishing email contains information such as organizationspecific email bodies and email signatures, organization branding, and relevant news, it can be harder to distinguish the - Read More
 

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