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Our team has been informed of an ongoing cyber incident that is effecting Rackspace managed exchange environments.   As a result of the incident, Rackspace is recommending that its customers migrate to Microsoft Office 365 as soon as possible. Office 365 is a cloud-based productivity suite that includes email, document management, and collaboration tools. It

Christmas has come early for threat actors On December 10th 2021, a vulnerability in the popular Java logging framework log4j dropped on Twitter, originating from a Chinese blogger ‘yangyang’. Dubbed “Log4Shell”, the vulnerability works when an application or library using the log4j framework processes an untrusted string containing JNDI lookup information. The vulnerability enables an

Introduction Ransomware is showing no signs on slowing down, so it is more important than ever to revise your backup strategy.  This post will introduce immutable backup methods and explain how it can help your company recover from ransomware, insider threats, accidents, and errors. Immutable backups are backups that cannot be erased or overwritten with

The global pandemic has seen the adoption of cloud-based services such as SaaS, increase at unprecedented rates, and It’s here to stay. This increasing adoption of cloud brings with it, a serious headache for Managed Services Providers. Quite often, they are not even informed of newly added services. These “invisible services” are referred to as

In business one of the most important things, to consider is the strength of your IT security. Unlike personal security, business IT security keeps critical systems, staff, and consumer information safe from attacks and leaks. There are always upgrades rolling out to combat the constant barrage of attacks, but if your business patch management in

With the Colonial Pipeline hack, Americans felt the pinch of cybercrime moving into their daily lives. The further breach of security systems at JBS caused havoc in the company’s supply chain systems, endangering the nation’s food supply. As of July 2021, more than 800 American businesses are dealing with the effects of cyber threats like

CVE-2021-34527 AKA PrintNightmare is a critical security flaw with the internal design of the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler service.  This service, which is present on all modern versions of Microsoft Windows products, can be used by malicious actors to completely compromise the affected systems. On Tuesday, 7/6/21 Microsoft released an out-of-band update to patch the

Ask any IT manager, and they’ll tell you since the pandemic, they’ve been stretched to the limit. Supporting both the migration to work from home, implementing digital safety checks at the office reception area, and now supporting a hybrid work from home/work in the office, most IT manager and their teams resources are stretched thinly.