Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Your IT Team has an opportunity to patch a security weakness in your Dell computers. If you facilitate them acting now, you will probably be one step ahead of attackers. The good news is Dell’s not detected any attacks in the wild. However, now bad actors have a new challenge, a puzzle to solve, a […]

Intel says, again, to stop deploying patches. Java and other new patches need handling.

For those of you with Apple products, Apple just released some important updates. Knowing that updates might cause a problem, please back up your computer first. You are backing up all the time already, right? Time Machine is a wonderful tool and is built in. If you want to supplement Time Machine with an additional […]

You’ve likely heard of the massive ransomware attack that has taken down so many organizations, including hospitals, around the world. The ransomware appears to have exploited a bug for which Microsoft released a fix a little over a month ago. Follow these 10 steps to help protect your organization from this, and from future attacks: