Closed Due To Weather (Snow)
The Cyber Tech Cafe office will be closed on Friday, 8 December 2017.
This Week In Tech News [1 Dec 2017]
This Week In Tech News [1 Dec 2017] This Week In Tech News is a weekly segment released on Fridays highlighting the most important, popular, and interesting technology related news stories of the past week. Written and curated by Scott Schilder and presented by Cyber Tech Cafe. If you have an idea for a story to highlight please share it with us on Twitter. Huge Vulnerability Found in Mac OS High Sierra - Mac user and software engineer Lemi Orhan Ergin first discovered a bug in the way Mac OS High Sierra handles logins and authentication on November 28th and disclosed the vulnerability to Apple in a tweet. https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752 The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to gain access to the device as the root user, without a password, simply by…
Happy Thanksgiving from Cyber Tech Cafe
Cyber Tech Cafe will be closed on Thursday and Friday to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday and spend time with family and friends. Any non-emergency support requests will be responded to on a first come, first served basis on Monday morning. If you need emergency technical support Thursday through Sunday, our emergency on-call technicians will be available. You can page the emergency on-call technician by including the word 'emergency' in the subject of your email request. Please note that holiday rates will apply. From all of us here at Cyber Tech Cafe, we wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving! Nathan and Kristy Underwood
November 2017 News and Updates
Updates News Mailing List - We're excited to announce that the mailing list is back up and running. We generally only send emails once per month (the News and Updates), so it's a low volume list. We have a sign-up form on the right-column of our website if you'd like to sign up. Holiday Schedule - Please be sure to check out our 2017 holiday schedule here. If you have projects that you'd like to complete by year end, please let us know as soon as possible. MyIT - We are working on some exciting changes to the MyIT Options, including updates to the Network Ninja, for 2018 that we hope to announce in the December newsletter. Executive Summary - Critical vulnerabilities were patched by Microsoft and Adobe this month,…
2017 Holiday Schedule
The leaves are changing, we've got pumpkin spice everything and I'm already starting to see Christmas commercials on television. It's hard to believe, but we're officially back in the holiday season. We are already starting to schedule projects around the holidays so it seemed like a good idea to go ahead and post our official holiday schedule. As always, we will have on-call personnel available in the event of emergencies and will post additional reminders as the holidays get closer. Thanksgiving Closed Thursday, 23 November and Friday, 24 November. Returning to normal business hours on Monday, 27 November. Christmas Closed Monday, 25 December and Tuesday, 26 December. Returning to normal business hours on Wednesday, 27 December. New Year Closed Monday, 1 January. Returning to normal business hours on Tuesday,…
October 2017 News and Updates
Updates Executive Summary - This month's dominate tech news story had headlines warning us that "'All Wi-Fi networks' are vulnerable" . Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, discovered a vulnerability in the WPA2 standard that has been dubbed KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attacks) and according to the researcher "works against all modern protected Wi-Fi networks." The attack is particularly devious in that it allows not only for things like "steal[ing] sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos, and so on" but also can allow the attacker to "inject ransomware or other malware into websites". The paper goes on to say that "if your device supports Wi-Fi, it is most likely affected. " Also this month, using Shodan, a search engine for Internet-connected devices, we are able…
Problems with GoDaddy email
If you are using GoDaddy for email, you are likely having problems sending and receiving emails. Very few details at this point but there is a problem that GoDaddy has acknowledged and is currently working on. No reason for outage or ETA on the resolution has been provided.
The Equifax Breach: Just How Bad Is It?
For those of you that have just emerged from under your rock to read this article, I appreciate it, but if you haven't heard, a cyber security breach on one of the 3 main credit bureaus, Equifax, effecting over 143 Million Americans was announced this past week and some are touting this as one of the worst breaches in history. While we wait for the smoke to settle on this one, I wanted to put together a small collection of some of the key points I have heard being discussed and why they make this one of the more serious breaches in history. Severity of leaked data - The data reported to have been stolen includes the full names, address, birth date, social security number, and in some cases the…
Closing at 2:00pm ET Monday, 11 Sept 2017, possible late opening on Tuesday
We will be closing at 2:00pm ET on Monday, 11 September 2017 to get our folks home in advance of forecast bad weather resulting from Hurricane Irma. We will be monitoring incoming support requests and responding as conditions allow. At this time, we plan to open tomorrow (Tuesday, 12 September 2017) by 10:00am ET if conditions permit. We will be updating our website here as well as social media with any changes.
Hurricane Irma
Our thoughts and prayers are with those in the path of hurricane Irma now and over the coming days. We will be watching the path of the storm closely and will be announcing any changes to our normal business hours here and posting those changes to our Facebook and Twitter accounts. If we do have to close the shop, we will be monitoring the incoming support requests closely and responding as conditions allow. With the storm bearing down, now would be a good time to confirm that all of your unnecessary electronic equipment is powered off and disconnected (in the event of flooding, this will give the equipment the best chance of surviving) and that any mission critical equipment is connected to at least surge protection or ideally backup battery…