Computers-byte LLC

11/23/2019

A little data-recovery weekend

12/28/2018

Yikes lots of Holiday IT wake up calls....here are some details on the national Century Link Outage.

The outage is affecting customers in the Treasure Valley and across the U.S.

11/17/2018

Actual request:

"
Can you give me a call when you get a minute, we've got some questions about setting up a golf simulator with a projector here at the office.

Thanks"

Love it!

10/21/2018

Got to keep all the servers running smoothly with fresh battery backup batteries.

08/04/2018

Truth!

04/09/2018

Beware of those "fun" online/Facebook quizzes.

More and more data is coming out that those "fun" quizzes are really ways to collect more data about you.

"CubeYou misleadingly labeled its quizzes "for non-profit academic research," then shared user information with marketers."

Data analytics firm CubeYou uses personality quizzes and apps clearly labeled for "non-profit academic research" to aid marketers in finding customers.

02/25/2018

This one hits close to home! Make sure your AV/Spyware are up to date AND don't have unnecessary servers/PCs/IoT exposed to the internet via RDP or other bruteforceable protocols. If you have to expose them to the internet look into a brute forcing monitoring like EvlWatcher or RDPGuard.

The Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) has shut down over 2,000 computers after some systems got infected with the SamSam ransomware on Wednesday, February 21.

01/31/2018

Here is another one going around trying to trick you into giving away your apple ID login. It scares you into thinking someone just bought something under your Apple ID. Remember to hover you mouse over links in emails BEFORE clicking to see where they go, normally scams are a dead give away once you do that.

01/28/2018

We see lot of these. You get a email from a friend or business associate that you weren't expecting. They inform you that they sent you a file and to retrieve it you need to login to either your webmail or your dropbox or something similar. Double check the URL they are having your login to because there is a chance your friend/associates email was compromised and the URL is FAKE. You can see in the real life example the user even replied to the email to confirm and the attackers reply back encouraging them to open the PDF and provide their login. If you're really unsure pick up the phone and call the sender.

01/27/2018

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/219996-important-web-blocking-ram-usage-issue/

Major issues with Malwarebytes with many false positive blocking of sites and consuming PC memory till your PC freezes. Best course of action is to close Malware in the task bar and wait till a fix. (While closed your PC is vulnerable so practice safe websurfing or step outside for a bit :) )

All, We're aware of an issue with a protection update that shipped an hour ago that is causing all web traffic to be blocked and RAM usage to climb. W...