Beware of a new potentially dangerous trend on social media and online, which could encourage your child to take their own life: this is the warning coming from parents. The danger is called the Momo Challenge.

A lot of parents are learning about this for the very first time, this week, even though there have been reports since the summer of 2018. Part of the reason for that is explained by the fact that the game instructs kids that if they tell their parents about it, actual harm will be inflicted on them or even on their parents.

This is an extremely shortened version of a very large issue. If you would like any of the details or should you have any questions, please contact us as we can gladly fill in the blanks.

The Problem:

Security Breaches/Attacks are getting worse.

Working from home or the road with remote access is simply amazing. This article will give you the tricks to get the most out of it, and of course make sure you are secure from the bad guys.

Not only do we help a ton of clients do this effectively, we do it ourselves too! Our office manager routinely spends months (even years) in Europe working.

What is the most powerful resource in your company? Would you rather live without your copier or your computers? How about a key employee vs no computers? Phones vs. Computers?

No matter your answers, there is no doubt that computers are the powerhouse engines of most firms.

Would you give just anyone free reign over all your money, credit cards, bank accounts and retirement funds? No! Of course not!

Yet, SO many firms let anyone manage their IT. Which would be worse, having your checking account emptied by an incompetent bookkeeper or permanently losing all your firm’s data and being completely unable to work? Either way, a bad IT person can literally bankrupt a firm.

So at this point, it really is safe to assume the bad guys have YOUR password. Probably several of them.

Don’t believe me? Go to haveibeenpwned.com and check your own account. And that only checks a tiny fraction of the databases that have been hacked.

Guess what is the biggest vulnerability in your entire, sophisticated, computer network? It’s not the firewall. It’s not the Wi-Fi. It’s not even missed patches, passwords or protocols. It’s the people in front of the keyboards! Yup… employees are the biggest threat!

Imagine your network is like Fort Knox.

There is something I do that makes me feel like James Bond, 007 himself when it comes to security and secret codes. That’s Two Factor Authentication or 2FA. OK, yes, I’m a nerd but still, it’s pretty cool and it REALLY improves your security!

Two Factor (sometimes called Multifactor) means logging into a system with 2 or more things.

Yes, you really are!

Right here in Palm Beach County, we see countless scams and attempted attacks being blocked every… single… day. And we are seeing a lot more targeted attacks. That means they pick people just like you and actively go after them.