How is SS7 and text hacking happening and how are they doing it?

Many people are asking if text messages are safe, especially when it comes to 2FA Multifactor?

Many banks are still using this technology over app based protections and with so many companies now in the S7 ring, the attacks are happening more frequently now.

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Do you need to backup Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, Box or AWS? This is why you should always do backups to another vendor – watch this!

How Sterling IT survived a data disaster with external backups

Introduction

Sterling IT is a company that provides IT services and solutions to various clients. In 2015, they faced a major data crisis when their vendor, who hosted their email and remote desktop servers, suffered a complete system failure and lost all their data. The vendor had promised to have geolocation backups, but they all failed as well. Fortunately, Sterling IT had their own external backups with different providers, and they were able to restore their clients’ data and operations. This story shows the importance of having external backups and not relying on the source provider alone.

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Why choose Dropbox over Onedrive and what are the differences?

We are often asked why dropbox over free onedrive?
Why should I pay for something I can get free?

One of the biggest reasons, besides what we see below, if that Dropbox’s primary product is Dropbox, and if this product fails, the whole company does.
On the other hand Microsoft, Google and others have a suite of products meaning that they are not reliant on one product, and therefore can “sometimes” not put the effort in. I am in no way saying this cant or wont change in the future

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What is SPF in anti-spam, How do I set it up to allow email through and prevent from blocking?

As spam, and more importantly, phishing and other malicious emails are becoming a more and more serious issue, companies are installing email filters such as TopSec Blockmail or Barracuda.

These mail filters scan the emails on many levels and use AI, keyword triggering, blacklist lookup and many other ways to determine if an email is safe to deliver or not.

One of the most basic checks, yet not well understood, is the SPF record (Sender Policy Framework). (more information at WIKI as well)

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How to fix email hyperlinks links not working in email Outlook (Resolved)

Have you tried to click a link in an email and it does nothing?
However you can right click and COPY and PASTE into a browser and works ok?

The problem seems to be google chrome doing something in the registry to stop it from working.

You may also get the following error messages

This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

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