Town of Colonie Cyberattack Colonie, New York – Hit by Ransomware Attack The town of Colonie’s had a cyberattack, forced to run operations offline. The Town of Colonie Cyberattack attack was discovered Wednesday, Jan 15th in the evening. “The town has not paid any ransom” according to the Albany Times Union and town spokesperson Sara … Read more
Data Loss in the Town of Milton The Town of Milton in Saratoga County suffered a data loss. Milton is located near Ballston Spa. The town’s previous administration intentionally wiped the town’s computers of nearly all data including files and programs. Town of Milton Data Loss The new town Supervisor Benny Zlotnick stated it is … Read more
Windows 7 Ends Support Soon, You Need To Move On Microsoft will soon be ending support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020. Support will end soon for the immensely popular Windows 7 operating system on January 14th, 2020. All home users and small business should should stop using it ASAP, and move on. While … Read more
macOS Catalina is Causing Data Loss Michael Tsai, the developer of EagleFiler and the SpamSieve plug-in for Apple Mail has written a blog post detailing reports that macOS Catalina is causing data loss in Apple Mail when upgrading to build 19A583 (macOS Catalina 10.15.0). It’s Not Just Windows Back in October 2018, Microsoft rolled out … Read more
After 10 years of support Windows 7 is nearing an end Last updated October 16th, 2019 Microsoft is about to end extended support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020. Support Windows 7 is nearing an end with only a little over 3 months left. What is extended support? How is that different from normal … Read more
Everything you need to know about Ransomware Why just give your computer a virus when we can get money? That is exactly what a hacker would ask. Whey just give you a computer virus when you can be held to pay a ransom? This is an overview of ransomware, including what it is, its history … Read more
City of Albany Cyberattack New York’s Capital, Albany, New York – Hit by Ransomware Attack Last updated September 30th, 2019 The City of Albany Cyberattack occurred on March 30th, with city officials working over the weekend to respond to the incident. The City of Albany cyberattack has made damages to the City of Albany and … Read more
Damaged Hard Drive with Fingerprint Contamination A client recently lost data on a portable hard drive due to mechanical failure. The external portable hard drive contained the only copies of data the customer needed and had data going back years with multiple computers worth of information back to 2005. The drive was a Seagate External … Read more
Top Five Cloud Backup Mistakes That Lead to Data Loss In this post, I discuss the five most common cloud backup mistakes and how to avoid them. Using off-site or cloud backup is an essential part of any data backup process. Cloud backup made everything easy and automatic, right? Yes, howere none all of them … Read more
Top Five Disaster Recovery Mistakes Data Recovery is a big business, and data loss happens every day. These are the top five disaster recovery mistakes businesses make. Disasters can strike at any time. Sure, you can always purchase a new computer, server, hardware, but the key to ensuring survival for your business is robust data … Read more