Be Careful Opening Emails

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Be wary of opening emails from DHL, UPS, USPS, FEDEX, Quickbooks and ones stating invoice attached! Several clients opened emails and got immediately INFECTED! Be VERY careful of emails with attachments.

There has been a large influx of spam messages during this time and in some cases these emails are making it through the spam firewall. If you suspect an email is not legitimate, delete it immediately.

A DHL email scam is also going around trying to steal your personal informatics.

Delivery scams often entice you by telling you what cool “item” is on its way, such as a mobile phone that someone is sending you as a gift SEE BELOW

If you get infected with a payload virus it can quickly migrate to your backups and destroy any chance of data recovery – if you are unsure of an email contact us!

 

The search bar in Outlook 365 moved!

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Outlook 365 for Windows is getting a new Search bar which combines many existing search and other options right on top of the title bar.

It’s now available to Office 365 Insiders and will gradually roll out to other Office 365 .

Outlook Search is hard to miss, it’s right on top of the title bar, above the ribbon.


Simple Search Bar

Type in a search and press enter, it’ll appear in the list just as it does now.

Click on the down arrow to show more search options.  All these choices have been available for some time, but are clearer in this view than the Search ribbon.

In some instances the update causes searches to fail. If you are experiencing this issue you will need to rebuild your search index.

Open Outlook

Go to File > Options > Search > Indexing

Click Advanced > and click Rebuild

 

Comprehensive List of Everything that doesn’t work on Amtrak’s WIFI

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I took a trip up to Albany this weekend. I decided to try using the wifi provided by the train, and found that it’s hardly reliable. Assuming of course your able to actually connect, mine failed for about 20 minutes trying to obtain an IP Address from the train’s router, the connection is slow at best. It’s only meant for basic internet use.

Once you accept the terms and continue, granting you access to the wireless network, your shown a brief message stating streaming services will NOT work. I of course wanted to test this. 

Does Not Work:
Netflix
Hulu
Disney Plus
Youtube
Vimeo
Pandora
Facebook Watch
Remote Desktop/ShowMyOffice
Citrix
VPN Software
Security Cameras

Works:
E-Mail/Websites
Facebook Feed
Instagram (Posting images did not work)
File Downloads (Slow but eventually completes)

I did some digging and found an article on Amtraks website. They state in their blog “The golden rule of Amtrak WIFI is it supports general web browsing.”

Virtual Office customers may notice ShowMyOffice does not connect. I did a network scan and found they only allow port 80/443 inbound and outbound. Makes sense for basic internet browsing. Most of the service ports appeared to be blocked, hence why the streaming services do not work. I noticed the person next to me was on a remote session and I asked him, how do you connect to your office?  He said “oh, my company provides a hotspot for travel, the WIFI on-board isn’t the greatest.” I laughed.   

With the holidays coming up and most of us traveling home to see relatives, we recommend you download anything important you’d need to access, or email yourself any important files. Bringing your own hotspot may be the best choice, just be aware that cellular signal between Penn Station and the northern most tip of Manhattan is spotty. The train is underground for most of this stretch. Once you reach The Bronx however, 5G service is pretty reliable. 

Office Activation on ShowMyOffice

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Some users of our virtual cloud are receiving an activation error message today. We\’re found an intermittent issue reaching Microsoft\’s activation servers and are working to get this resolved shortly. We\’re asking everyone affected to simply log out and log back in again. Once fully resolved you will no longer see the message.

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A hacker gained access to 100 million Capital One credit card applications and accounts

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Read Article at CNN Business

New York (CNN Business)
In one of the biggest data breaches ever, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million Capital One customers\’ accounts and credit card applications earlier this year.

Paige Thompson is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access to 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, in addition to an undisclosed number of people\’s names, addresses, credit scores, credit limits, balances, and other information, according to the bank and the US Department of Justice.
A criminal complaint says Thompson tried to share the information with others online. The 33-year-old, who lives in Seattle, had previously worked as a tech company software engineer for Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, the cloud hosting company that Capital One was using, the Justice Department said. She was able to gain access by exploiting a misconfigured web application firewall, according to a court filing.
Thompson was arrested Monday in connection with the breach, the Justice Department said. Thompson\’s attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.
 
 
Capital One (COF) said the hack occurred March 22 and 23 and includes credit card applications as far back as 2005. The company indicated it fixed the vulnerability and said it is \”unlikely that the information was used for fraud or disseminated by this individual.\” However, the company is still investigating.
\”I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right,\” said Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank in a statement.
The breach affected around 100 million people in the United States and about 6 million people in Canada, according to Capital One.
 
However, \”no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99% of Social Security numbers were not compromised,\” the company noted.
Capital One said it will notify people affected by the breach and will make free credit monitoring and identity protection available. The company expects to incur between $100 million and $150 million in costs related to the hack, including customer notifications, credit monitoring, tech costs and legal support due to the hack.
Capital One\’s stock was down 5% in premarket trading Tuesday.

How Capital One got hacked

The criminal complaint against Thompson paints a picture of a less-than-careful suspect.
Thompson posted the information on GitHub, using her full first, middle and last name, the complaint says. She also boasted on social media that she had Capital One information.
In a channel on Slack, a chat service often used by businesses as well as other groups, Thompson explained the method she used to break into Capital One, the Justice Department alleges. She claimed to use a special command to extract files in a Capital One directory stored on Amazon\’s servers.
\”I wanna get it off my server that\’s why Im archiving all of it lol,\” Thompson allegedly posted on Slack. One person was alarmed by what Thompson found, writing that the information was \”sketchy,\” adding, \”don\’t go to jail plz.\”
Thompson made little effort to disguise her identity. She allegedly used the screen name \”erratic\” on Slack, which was the same handle she used on a Twitter account and a Meetup chatroom page.
The FBI special agent who investigated Thompson believes Thompson tweeted that she wanted to distribute Social Security numbers along with full names and dates of birth.
One person who saw the information on GitHub notified Capital One of the \”leaked data\” belonging to the company. Capital One notified the FBI, and an agent searched Thompson\’s residence on Monday. They found devices in her possession that reference Capital One and Amazon as well as other entities that may have been targets of attempted — or actual — breaches.
The complaint indicates Thompson \”recognizes that she has acted illegally.\”