Tag: Business & Finance

Did You Get A USB Drive From The ADA? Don’t Plug It In

holstonit | June 3, 2016

Not even dentists are safe from hackers, and if they’ve been targeted, your company could easily be targeted in much the same way. Recently, the ADA (American Dental Association) sent USB flash drives out to dental offices all over the…

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Hire Carefully Or Risk Losing Your Business Big Money

holstonit | May 31, 2016

How much does a “bad hire” cost your company? Probably more than you think. In a recent survey conducted by CareerBuilder, a staggering 41% of companies estimated that a bad hire cost their firm more than $25,000. A quarter of…

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Hard Drive Failures Account For Majority of Data Loss

holstonit | May 20, 2016

If you’ve ever booted up your computer and gotten a cryptic “drive not found” message, you’re not alone. In fact, about one third of all data loss occurs because of this very error message. Drives simply failing to appear on…

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ADP Latest To Get Hit By Hackers – Was Your Account Affected?

holstonit | May 17, 2016

ADP is the world’s largest HR firm, handling tax and payroll accounts for more than 640,000 companies that collectively employ millions of people. It may be possible that your company is one of the hundreds of thousands that rely on…

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Dropbox Will No Longer Support Windows XP

holstonit | May 14, 2016

The news keeps getting worse for users still clinging to the aging Windows XP operating system. First, Microsoft itself stopped supporting the platform, no longer providing the millions of users still working with the OS with critical security patches to…

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Hackers Are Looking At Your Company For Credit Card Data

holstonit | May 12, 2016

The numbers are in, and they’re pretty grim. Trustware has released their annual Global Security Report, which outlines the current trends in cybercrime. Chief among the findings in the report is that fully 60% of the hacking attacks the company…

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Cheap Router Blamed For Hack – Are You Running Business-Grade Solutions?

holstonit | May 11, 2016

Earlier this year, Bangladesh Bank, one of the largest in the nation of Bangladesh, was successfully breached. The keen hackers made off with a staggering $80 million, when they used the bank’s system to hack into the SWIFT network, which…

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HIPAA Fines Are Real, Laptop Theft Costs Company $3.9 Million

holstonit | May 10, 2016

Does your company work with health information in any capacity? If it does, be advised, HIPAA violations are real, and can cost you and your business big money. The most recent company to find itself in the crosshairs of the…

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Using Oracle Software? Update Now

Mersad | April 26, 2016

It’s been a busy week at Oracle. The company has recently released a massive flurry of patches that fix a staggering 136 security issues for a wide range of the products it sells. This release comes in tandem with the…

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