The following incident occurred to the city of Riveria Beach, Florida very recently after one of it’s employees opened a suspicious email that contained ransomware. It cost them $600,000 and then some. See Here It is of paramount importance that when receiving / opening email you perform due diligence before clicking to open the email […]
See this article for a critical issue if you have the App “WhatsApp” installed on your phone, this was just announced May 13, 2019 so it’s worth double checking. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/14/update-whatsapp-now-one-call-could-give-spies-access-to-your-phone/ It’s a scary read and the long and short of it is you need to update the app immediately if it’s not the current most […]
Recently Facebook had yet another security issue wherein a huge amount of passwords for it’s users may have been exposed, see here ……McLean Data recommends you NEVER use the same password for multiple accounts although many people in practice do just that, once any of the sites are compromised that contain one of your “favorite” passwords […]
By now most of you have already seen references to using the iPhone ios 12 feature called trackpad by clicking and holding the space bar when composing messages or correcting spelling etc. the initial internet buzz about it started about a month ago but for those that have not here’s a link to the feature: […]
Recently one of the largest companies, Facebook had a security breach in which millions of accounts were impacted/compromised, this brings to the forefront the fact that you are your own security expert in this on line world, many sites offer you the opportunity and even encourage you to sign in to their site using your […]
For those of your running iPhones as your daily driver mobile device make sure – if your device can be upgraded to the most recent operating system ios 12 – that you do so, new perks include better battery life and faster smoother processing speeds, faster open camera action for those shots you don’t want […]
In the last couple weeks McLean Data has received concerned communications from multiple users that have received an ominous email which includes a real password that is in use by the recipient of the email, the email furthermore attempts to extort money or “intimate” information will be disseminated to all the users contacts. This link […]
Recently an alert went out issued by the FBI referencing a large number of WiFi Routers that may be compromised and unsafe to use, see original statement HERE. Many articles state that you should be “rebooting” / restarting your WiFi routers, others say you may need to update firmware on your devices to the latest […]
As of late several clients have experienced receiving calls from people who claim they received a call from them and are calling them back, the problem…said person never initiated a call to the party returning their call, this is indicative of Caller ID Spoofing wherein a nefarious party places calls and inserts a bogus caller […]
Some clients I’ve spoken with lately have heard me bemoan the lack of a couple specific apps on my Microsoft 950 XL which I dearly love and as a result at least entertaining the idea of a move to Apple for at least one of the devices used by McLean Data Solutions LLC…..Microsoft has been […]
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