A vulnerability in wireless networking, commonly referred to as Wi-Fi, was disclosed to the public today. This vulnerability allows an attacker near you to impersonate the network and get your system to connect to their network instead. There is no fix for this at present, but there are steps you can take to reduce your …
Credit card skimmers are devices that steal your credit card magnetic stripe information, which are then used by criminals. One common location of the skimmers are at gas stations, where there are many credit card readers, no attendant nearby, and lots of transactions. The skimmers come in many forms, but one of the most commonly …
News reports have been flooding in with coverage of the recently revealed Equifax breach. As Equifax is one of the “big three” credit reporting agencies, this is a large incident impacting all Americans — whether or not your data was stolen. While they are still researching the scope and extent of the breach, it is …
At Upic, we host ePledge campaigns for many United Ways across the country, and we take security seriously. We continuously make improvements to our systems and configuration to support industry best practices, securing data while at rest in our data centers and while “at flight” on the way to them. One topic which has …
Security awareness is increasingly important in today’s digital world. According to Forbes (2016), the cost of cybercrime is expected to reach $2 trillion by 2019. There is a tremendous need for companies both large and small to protect themselves against cyber threats. Through its partnership with KnowBe4, Upic offers United Ways comprehensive defense against cyber …
Today there was a large increase in ransomware attacks on computers across the globe, where hackers lock data up and hold it for ransom. The attack targeted computers that weren’t updated against a vulnerability with an available fix. This is one reason why many United Ways choose to host their data on Upic’s Virtual Office, …
On August 17, 2016, Cisco announced a high severity vulnerability for Cisco ASA firewalls. The discovery of the vulnerability is an interesting read, but I’ll let them cover the story and not rehash it here. No patch is available yet, but by following IT best practices the risk to your systems will be minimized. As …
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