Chaining Pathogens
Working from home? Are you finally catching up on all those updates and patches that you’ve neglected to take the time to install over the past couple of months? Well,Microsoft has also put a pause on all non-essential patches during the coronavirus...
Changing the Narrative of “Young Hackers”
It started with a controversial poster in the UK – one of which was warning parents about their children and cybercrime - involving the Metropolitan Police and National Crime Agency logos. The poster all but confirmed that if your child was dabbling in...
Protect Yourself From Coronavirus Scams
Amid the CoronaVirus outbreak, we are looking at workforces around the globe, shift into a remote setting. A remote userbase means more stress and anxiety for security teams because with all their users so far apart, there's more room for vulnerabilities...
Spring Into Cleaning - Your Network!
Spring has officially sprung, and you're probably itching to clean house! Especially now that you're spending so much time at home, or maybe you're used to working remotely. Either way, it's a great time to clean not just your physical surroundings, but...
Phishing in the BlackWater
With the workforce transitioning to a work-from-home workforce, cybersecurity attackers have begun to change their approach on how to attack users. While phishing has always been a method of attack for cybercriminals, the transition to WFH has given...
Cybercriminals Capitalizing on Coronavirus
It’s evident that things have been going astray lately regarding our public health and there’s no escaping the “c” word when turning on the television, radio, or going online – it’s everywhere. The ongoing threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is...
Fear Spreads Faster
You should probably be more worried about COVID-19 infecting your devices rather than your body. Hackers are using fear of the virus as a way to trick people desperate for more information into clicking on phishing emails and other scams. Here's how to...
New Wormable SMB Vulnerability Disclosed
Microsoft published a security advisory (ADV200005) yesterday warning about yet another vulnerability in, yep you guessed it, SMB. This time the vulnerability is in SMBv3 and it has to do with a buffer overflow in the code that SMBv3 uses to handle...
TechGuard Celebrates 20 Years in 2020!
Big things are happening this year for TechGuard Security! We officially turned 20 years old on February 22nd, 2020 and couldn’t be more excited to celebrate throughout the entire year – what an outstanding milestone! Two decades of providing world-class...
TechGuard Attends RSA 2020
The focus of the RSA 2020 was the “Human Element.” This was certainly on display in a variety of different aspects. Attendance and foot traffic was noticeably down compared to events spanning prior years. Big names such as Verizon, IBM, and AT&T were...
Is Your Mobile Device Secure?
A quick note on mobile security For almost 15 years, the mobile computing space has taken the world by storm. What used to take a laptop or desktop, can now be done in the palm of your hand.
Oh, the Places TechGuard Will Go!
Our team at TechGuard has been extremely busy with planning and attending multiple events around the US – from San Diego to San Francisco and all the way back down to Orlando – there’s no place we won’t go!
