LAN Infotech Becomes National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2016 Champion
October 26, 2016 – Fort Lauderdale, FL — LAN Infotech today announced that it has become a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) 2016. It will be joining a growing global...
Twitter Hack Big Advertisement for Two-Factor Authentication
In June of this year a massive hacking incident occurred that involved over 32 million accounts. According to LeakedSource, the Dark Web came into possession of the information linked to those...
FBI Warning Cites More Highly-Targeted and Expensive Ransomware Attacks
In a September 16 alert, the FBI warned of ransomware variants that are more frequently targeting highly-vulnerable business servers and how they are like a focused virus, looking for big servers...
Why You Should Know the Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS
Whether or not you are concerned about making your website more secure, switching to an HTTPS security-encrypted web platform is still a good idea. Why, you ask? Because having that extra level of...
Why You Need to Make Backups Mandatory at All Levels of Your Network Operations
Too many business entities are woefully deficient in their backup plans. Many think that one or two external drives and some cloud backup is enough. Others have less than that in backup, simply...
Tips on How Businesses Can Prevent Cyber Crime
We all see the news stories about the big organizations like hospitals and government agencies suffering cyber breaches, but small and medium-sized businesses also need to be hyper-aware of the...
Ransomware Causing a Rethinking of Disaster Recovery Importance
Many companies are having to re-think their disaster recovery strategies due mainly to the recent spike in ransomware attacks, but also because of malware infection in general. With ransomware...
Do You Have a Viable Business Continuity Plan in Place?
It doesn’t matter what industry you work in – the great importance of having a viable business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place cannot be overstated. The occasional and inevitable...
Laptop Battery Charging Tips from the Pros
There’s a lot of talk these days about mobile phone batteries and charging, but laptop batteries are in a class all their own and deserve attention. Your laptop battery is one of its most important...
Yahoo Data Theft Good Reason to Regularly Change Passwords
In case you needed another reason for regularly changing your passwords, the recently-uncovered Yahoo hack of 500 million accounts is probably the reason of the decade so far. The hack and...
90% of PC Users Ignore Important Security Warnings
It seems that 9 out of 10 PC users fail to heed important security warnings, opting instead to ignore needed updates and put their PCs at potential risk of some type of cyber threat, according to a...
Best Ways to Avoid and Remove Scareware
One of the methods black hat Internet marketers and hackers have of “tricking you into clicking” on their shady ads or pop-ups is scareware. It actually first cropped-up almost ten years ago, but...
