You should take time to become familiar with the important concepts Social Engineering and Phishing to better protect your home or church network. Attackers will try to use these concepts to exploit ... Continue Reading→
Digital Security for Churches: Data Breach Recovery and Prevention
A Data breach occurs when private or secure data is disclosed (intentionally or unintentionally) to an untrusted network. What happens if a company that you entrusted your personal information suffers ... Continue Reading→
Digital Security for Churches: Ransomware
Ransomware is increasingly common malware that infects computers and holds them hostage. Once a computer is infected the malware will encrypt every file it can find including your Documents, Desktop, ... Continue Reading→
Windows 10 Upgrade Scams
Microsoft is reporting a large number of people who are being told that their current Windows licenses are about to expire. They are instructed to call a number for help upgrading before their ... Continue Reading→
Apple Quicktime for Windows Security Advisory
Apple has announced today that they are dropping support for their Quicktime video player. There are multiple critical security issues with this software that will not be updated. If you have it ... Continue Reading→
Don’t Fall for Spear Phishing or Whaling Scams
Scammers want you to send them money. They want your password(s) so that they can log into your accounts and steal your data. Many of their attempts are laughably easy to detect and ignore. Others are ... Continue Reading→
Heartbleed Advisory
The Information Technology Office (IT Office) has been working to address security vulnerabilities related to the recent Heartbleed security issue. From the website: The Heartbleed Bug is a serious ... Continue Reading→
Password Reset Required on Conference Websites
The Information Technology Office has been working to address the recent Heartbleed vulnerability. This security issue affected the NCCUMC.org website and Ramus web hosting system. All Conference ... Continue Reading→
What To Do With Suspicious Email Messages
The Information Technology (IT) Office recently wrote a brief article on a new phishing attack that was making the rounds of our email system. After news of this story broke we have been contacted ... Continue Reading→
Security Advisory: New Phishing Attack
There is a new phishing attack passing around where you are invited in a brief message to log into Google to view a confidential shared document. If you visit the page and log into the system you are ... Continue Reading→