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03/31/2020

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/03/30/office-365-now-microsoft-365-new-features-word-excel/2918896001/

Excel becomes Quicken clone, PowerPoint adds coaching tips, Word wants you to write better. The cost is $99 yearly for software that used to sell in a box.

01/21/2020

Windows 7 officially reached it's End of Life January 14, 2020. That means that Microsoft will no longer be providing technical support, security updates, software updates, and fixes for Windows 7. If you still have systems running Windows 7 and you have questions, concerns, or need assistance in upgrading to Windows 10, please feel free to reach out us. 937-963-5990

12/11/2019

https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-what-will-happen-to-your-windows-7-pc-on-january-15-2020/?ftag=TRE7ce1dc9&bhid=22059314714553892961175014423537

Microsoft is ready to push a full-screen warning to Windows 7 users who are still running the OS after January 14. The nag-screen payload is part of the December 10 Patch Tuesday monthly rollup.

11/07/2019

https://www.coveware.com/blog/2019/5/2/ransomware-first-response-guide-what-to-do-in-the-oh-t-moment

A guide for companies on how to handle the first few minutes and hours after a ransomware attack is discovered.

09/09/2019

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cybersecurity-99-of-email-attacks-rely-on-victims-clicking-links/

Social engineering is by far the biggest factor in malicious hacking campaigns, warn researchers – so how can it be stopped?

07/17/2019

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-follows-in-chromes-footsteps-and-will-mark-all-http-pages-as-not-secure/?ftag=TRE49e8aa0&bhid=22059314714553892961175014423537

Mozilla will mark all HTTP pages as "not secure" starting with Firefox 70, to be released in October.

06/25/2019

https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/verizon-dqe-outage-internet-cloudflare-reddit-aws.html

And Verizon apparently made it much worse.

06/11/2019

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/11/new-security-warning-issued-for-googles-1-5-billion-gmail-and-calendar-users/

More than one billion users of Google's Gmail and Calendar applications are being warned about a newly discovered security threat. Here's what you need to know.

06/05/2019

Microsoft is dropping it's password expiration policies in Windows 10. Still recommend requirements for minimum password length, history and complexity.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/secguide/2019/05/23/security-baseline-final-for-windows-10-v1903-and-windows-server-v1903/?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-V.r.rBK21i3yr9GN0UwyYw&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-V.r.rBK21i3yr9GN0UwyYw&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__lq0b63jdpgkfritzkk0sohzn0m2xmasop61loqnu00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-V.r.rBK21i3yr9GN0UwyYw)()&irclickid=_lq0b63jdpgkfritzkk0sohzn0m2xmasop61loqnu00

05/13/2019

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04/29/2019

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-is-wi-fi-6/

What is Wi-Fi 6? It's both a new naming convention for wireless standards, and a big update to the standards that paves the way for powerful new Wi-Fi technologies. We're going over how the old 802.11 names are gone, and all the cool things that Wi-Fi 6 is going to bring to the table, including bett...