Nonprofit Tips
How Your Nonprofit Can Manage Data Breaches and Minimize Risk
Every day businesses and organizations collect personal data from people. Whether it is taking donations or payments, collecting contact information for newsletter subscriptions, or maintaining employee and volunteer records, your nonprofit probably has a large amount of personal information stored in your records. You also have financial information and other files that are private or… Read More
Cybersecurity
Be aware of phishing scams: think before you click!
Over the past few months, we’ve seen many email scams affect our clients and community. Please be extra cautious when opening emails from people you know, both in and outside your organization. Without proper end-user security awareness, your organization can be at risk of an attack. I wanted to share some common phishing attacks we… Read More
Technology Planning
The top 5 reasons to start 2018 with an IT security strategy
2017 was filled with privacy and security fiascos. To start 2018 with a simple, effective, IT security strategy is an excellent New Years resolution and gives your Executive Director peace of mind. Better yet, your peers will tell you this was the best and most fun IT security budget they ever spent. This list is… Read More
Cybersecurity, Tech News
New Ransomware Threat Emerges as a Scanned Document
Cyberheist news says: Here is the latest tactic in the cat-and-mouse game between cybercrime and security software vendors. The bad guys have come up with new a ransomware phishing attack, tricking users to open what appears to be a document scanned from an internal Konica Minolta C224e. This is a variant of the Locky… Read More
Cybersecurity
Survey of 2600 IT Pros: “Password Procedures Still Are A Cyber Security Fail”
Cyberheist News says: After the NIST passwords bombshell, KnowBe4 surveyed 2,600 IT professionals to find out how they were managing passwords The answers show that IT Pros are generally receptive to the proposed pass phrase concept suggested by NIST. NIST Special Publication 800-63B, “Digital Identity Guidelines,” states: “Many attacks associated with the use of passwords are not… Read More
Nonprofit Tips
Protecting Your Nonprofit in the Wake of Cybersecurity Attacks
Damaging cybersecurity attacks have become an increasingly regular occurrence in business. If you remember, in 2013, Target Corp. notified 70 million customers that hackers infiltrated their computer systems and had stolen customer’s personal data. In 2016, Yahoo Inc. was impacted when hackers had stolen the account information of 500 million users. In January of this… Read More
Tech News
Don’t Click on that Random Google Docs Invite
As you may have heard, email users have been receiving unsolicited emails with a fake Google Docs link inside. If you receive it, simply delete it. Google has provided an update on this attack this morning: “We realize people are concerned about their Google accounts, and we’re now able to give a fuller explanation after further investigation. We… Read More
Company Updates
How Ransomware Tried to Take Down One of Our Clients… and Lost
A few weeks ago, one of our clients was hit with a ransomware variant that successfully encrypted all file shares on their primary file server. If you don’t already know about ransomware, this means your files could be locked so that you cannot use them, you could be prevented from accessing Windows, and certain apps could… Read More
Nonprofit Tips
Alert: Funds transfer email scam targeting nonprofits
Tech Networks has been made aware of an ongoing scam email attempt to solicit funds from nonprofit organizations. In some cases, the scammer creates a similar domain name and pretends to be someone from within the organization. If you receive any suspicious emails asking for transfers of money, please be cautious. A couple warning signs… Read More
We’ve created an infographic on the current state of the nonprofit cloud:
