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 […]

So far, it appears that more than 30,000 organizations, including small businesses, are compromised. The US National Security Council urges organizations, including small businesses, to “take immediate measures” to detect compromise.

A friend contacted me a few days ago and said, “Every few weeks, I’ll go to a site, and it will say that this appears to be a new device? For example, I’ve looked at my Twitter account this morning, and it put up my username and asked me for my password again. Is this […]

Will running one rarely used program stop future attacks? It will in the SolarWinds attack and perhaps stop future compromises too.