Because we rely on email so much to run our businesses, it’s our greatest tool (no matter how much you might sigh when you see how many unread emails you have).
But because there’s so much activity in there. And you can receive emails from anyone, it’s the most common way to try to breach your business.
Hackers are targeting every business, every day. Using clever automated tools.
This is 100% true because they are targeting all businesses, all of the time.
Whereas once hacking was something done for the challenge and the bragging rights, these days it’s a form of organised crime.
Hackers use automated tools that are constantly looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit.
This is why it takes just one click on a dodgy email to let someone into your entire network.
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We’re TKNOWIT LIMITED, looking after businesses in Malton, Ryedale and beyond. And we’re on a mission to educate thousands more businesses around here about how to keep themselves safe from hackers.
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Wouldn’t that be good. No emails at the end of each day. No worrying that you’ve missed something important.
Or scrolling through the same emails again and again, when you’d rather be playing with your kids (doh!).
Inbox Zero isn’t reached by having fewer emails… that’s really hard to achieve. Instead, you need to change the way you handle emails.
Could a puppy get your business hacked?
How lovely. Lisa in accounts has a brand new puppy.
It’s taking over her life. There are photos on her desk. It’s all she seems to talk about. Hey – she even changed her password to include his name.
And suddenly that puppy has become a security risk to your business.
Because hackers are clever.
We are all familiar with having to run software updates on our Windows products regularly to remove vulnerabilities.
Apple’s Mac and iPhone/iPad and TV range are no different but many people have not been made aware or, in some cases, have been told they don’t have vulnerabilities or can’t get hacked. There have always been vulnerabilities but when it comes to hackers it’s often down to the analogy of shooting fish in a barrel. The barrel containing Windows fish is large and well stocked; until recently the Apple barrel wasn’t that well stocked – but now it is – for many reasons which this post is not focused on.
This week some vulnerabilities in the Apple range have started to hit the mainstream press and TV.
If you haven’t seen any of the news then here are a couple of links
BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49520355
The important thing to take from the publicity is that you should be regularly checking your devices for updates – even if the device is automatically set to apply updates. It can be several days between scheduled checks and your device is vulnerable during that window between the update been made available and your device applying it.
Are poor password practices putting your business at risk?
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To get more done in your business, you and your team need to be highly organised, and have systems to leverage information.
There’s a perfect tool for this – and you probably already have it.
OneNote from Microsoft is part of the powerful and popular Office 365 suite.
Fines issued over the past twelve months have already totalled €56m. And watchdogs say the European data protection agencies are just warming up. Yes that includes here in the UK.
In the first few months alone, more than 205,000 cases were reported across 31 countries.
And now the data officers have settled into their roles, they’re taking a zero- tolerance approach to breaches.
You want your staff to watch this video. Because their weak passwords put your business at risk.
3 in 4 people use passwords so weak, they are very easily hacked. We’re talking:
123456
Pet names, children’ names, spouse’s names
Football teams, favourite player, etc
We’re TKNOWIT , local data security experts. And almost every day we see the consequences of local businesses being hacked, due to weak passwords.
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Someone is. Or some other weak variant of their pet’s name, child’s name, or their favourite football team.
We’ve seen all of these. And so have the hackers. And that’s why passwords like these are so easy to crack.
People and their passwords are the weakest link in any organisation’s security. That includes businesses in Ryedale and beyond.
Our new video shows you how to easily add a powerful extra layer of security.
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