Security
Top 4 Risks You Face If You Don’t Upgrade to Windows 10
When you don’t upgrade to Windows 10, you’re leaving your machine and your entire network open to a variety of critical vulnerabilities. As we have addressed over the past year, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows 7 after January 2020, and even Windows 8 users are outside of mainstream support at this point. What…
Read MoreCybersecurity Awareness Month 2019: 10 Tips for Cyber Safety
Tech Tips from CoopSys – Episode 6: 10 Tips for Cyber Safety In this episode of Tech Tips from CoopSys we walk through our 10 tips for cyber safety list, which offers some simple tactics to help members of the online community to better protect themselves. People in the US spend as many as 12…
Read MoreMulti-Factor Authentication 101
Tech Tips from CoopSys – Episode 5: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 101 and Introduction to Single Sign-On (SSO) This is episode 5 of Tech Tips from CoopSys, we discuss the multi-layered approach to authentication, as well as the concept of single sign-on. We know that you and your team might find passwords down-right annoying sometimes, so…
Read MoreCredit Unions and Financial Institutions: 3 Technology Tools That Will Make Your Customers Happier
There is humongous opportunity right now for credit unions and financial institutions to create a better customer experience. Just a few small changes could mean higher customer satisfaction as well as more new and returning business. For credit unions to do a great job protecting clients and their assets, and to help those entities grow…
Read MoreCyber Security For Business: Top 5 Online Safety Tips For 2019
Whether we’re talking cyber security for your personal life or cyber security for business, we know how daunting it can be to figure out your best options. That challenge is largely the product of our digital life and how it is becoming more and more complex and “always on”. Just the sheer quantity of hackers,…
Read MoreFacebook Exposed Millions Of User Passwords By Mistake
Facebook announced today that during a “routine security review” in January they uncovered a huge security issue: Well over 200 million users’ passwords were being stored in a “readable format” – plaintext – within their data storage systems. That wasn’t supposed to happen. What does this mean? When companies save your password, most of them…
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