by Brian Allison | Apr 21, 2020 | Microsoft Windows
Effective April 21, 2020, Microsoft is re-branding the Office 365 services that are widely used in small and medium-sized businesses to become “Microsoft 365.” By Brian Allison, April 21, 2020 New Product Names The new product names go into effect on April...
by Brian Allison | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ransomware Report for Small and Midsize Businesses (SMB) Downtime and data loss are more costly to the business than the ransom More SMBs are reporting attacks to the authorities Fewer SMBs are paying the ransom Paying the ransom too often results in data remaining...
by Brian Allison | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Medical Providers boiling mad from Allscripts extended outage- update The outage was caused by a ransomware infection at NC data centers for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) cloud-based service. Without access to patient records, practices were shut down for days...
by Brian Allison | May 11, 2018 | Business Continuity
Microsoft announced last year that there will be a successor to Office 2016, the current version of the popular office suite that is bought on a “perpetual license” basis, meaning there is one payment made at time of purchase, and the software doesn’t get updates....
by Brian Allison | May 1, 2018 | Security, Uncategorized
Aldous Huxley would recognize our brave new world. Like software engineers write code to create programs, genetic engineers can use code to create synthetic DNA. These genetic codes start as code on a computer, and that computer can be hacked. The end-result could be...
by Brian Allison | Jan 9, 2018 | Security, Uncategorized
IMPORTANT INCS INFORMATIONAL NOTICE – PLEASE READ To all our INCS clients, friends and family, and acquaintances: Widely-used CPU chips have a critical design flaw that presents a possible security risk. Fixing it is a high-priority activity, and the fix may slow...
by Dennis Esselman | Jul 28, 2017 | Security
Cybersecurity – What are the threats facing your business network, and how can you protect against them? INCS is a security-first IT services provider, and we believe it is our job is to protect your business network from bad actors that want to harm you and...
by Brian Allison | Jul 28, 2017 | Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems
Future of Windows “Right now, we are releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we are all still working on Windows 10.” — as stated by Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon at the Microsoft Ignite conference in May, 2015. He describes...
by Brian Allison | May 17, 2017 | Security
Under shadowy circumstances, a self-replicating virus with a ransomware payload wreaked havoc across the globe over the weekend. The virus, dubbed WannaCrypt or WCry, is based on what was believed to be a previously unknown exploit, or “zero-day,” code-name...
