Are you a QuickBooks user? If so you're going to be thrilled by the company's recent announcement that Excel integration is coming soon. You read that correctly. Soon you will be able to sync QuickBooks and Excel which should simplify your life a great deal. This is but the latest in a long line of similar moves Intuit QuickBooks has made. Over the past few years the company has integrated their wildly popular software with a variety of other platforms like Bill.com, HubSpot, LeanLaw [...]
Do you own an Amazon Kindle? Amazon has a warning for you if you do. Beware. Hackers are now using poisoned ebooks to delete the contents of infected Kindle readers and take control of a victim's Amazon account. The hackers take advantage of the fact that on any given day there are literally hundreds of ebooks offered for free on Amazon's platform. By disguising their poisoned ebook as just another free title it is easy for the poisoned ebook to get lost in the shuffle. Users are [...]
The magnetic stripe on the back of credit and debit cards has been a standard feature for as long as most people can remember. MasterCard recently made a rather surprising announcement concerning those stripes and are planning to phase them out of most markets beginning in 2024. The company will no longer require US-based companies to issue chip cards with magnetic stripes beginning in 2027 as an intermediary step. Another intermediary step on MasterCard's road map is to phase out the [...]
Retailers, hospitals and financial institutions tend to be the targets of choice for the hackers of the world. Of course they're not the only targets. The simple truth is that any company can find itself in the cross hairs of a hacker. The most recent victim is Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte. In addition to shutting down manufacturing operations in Taiwan the attack also took a number of the company's web-based systems. They include its online support and the Taiwanese [...]
Employee cyber security training is paying off according to a report recently released by IT security company F-Secure. Researchers from F-Secure analyzed more than 200,000 emails that had been flagged as suspicious by employees working for organizations around the world. They discovered that more than one third of those emails could be classified as phishing. Phishing is an extremely common technique hackers use to gain important information about specific individuals. In some cases [...]
We're beginning to see increasing collaboration between giant tech companies and government agencies around the world. In the UK the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched its Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) back in April of 2020. The agency has received nearly 7 million reports since its launch. These include more than 50,500 reported scams and in excess of 97,500 suspicious URLs. Microsoft is getting in on the action and has recently added a new button to its [...]
Medical equipment provider Medtronic has issued an urgent recall order for insulin pump controllers belonging to their "MiniMed Paradigm" family. The company cited serious cyber security risks as the reason for the recall. The models in question are MMT-500 and MMT-503 which is used in conjunction with the Medtronic MiniMed 508 pump. Overall more than 31,000 of these devices were sold between August 1999 and July 2018. These devices are used by diabetics all over the country to stop, [...]
Employee cyber security training is paying off according to a report recently released by IT security company F-Secure. Researchers from F-Secure analyzed more than 200,000 emails that had been flagged as suspicious by employees working for organizations around the world. They discovered that more than one third of those emails could be classified as phishing. Phishing is an extremely common technique hackers use to gain important information about specific individuals. In some cases they[...]
A new study recently published by the digital identity firm Beyond Identity contains a number of surprises relating to passwords and password security. This is information that IT professionals and small or medium-sized business owners should be aware of.While it is not a rigorous and scientific study the results of the company's survey are beyond surprising. Here's a quick overview: First fully one in ten people surveyed felt confident that they could guess a co-worker's password by [...]
Non-Physician Providers Will Become More Common with Time You don’t have to be a physician anymore to offer the services of one. The term "non-physician provider" (NPP) is becoming common with time. Non-physician providers Physicians have a tight schedule around the clock. No matter how hard they try, there is always something more that could have been done, one more patient that could have been seen. This is where NPPs come in. They may not be actual physicians, but are licensed and trained[...]
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