If you’re currently running Windows Server 2003, do you have a migration plan yet? On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows Server 2003. End of support means that users and businesses still on the platform will no longer receive security updates for any version of Windows Server 2003. If you are...
CryptoWall 2.0 was released in October, 2014 and is classified as Ransomware. Once the malicious software has infected a computer it begins to scan data files and encrypts files so that they cannot be reopened. Once your files are encrypted a prompt shows up to notify you of the location of the file and that...
The Importance of Internet Security Regardless of what seems to be a consistent news stream of incidents where hackers crack into businesses to cause harm, steal information, or disrupt daily operations, there are still organizations who are asking “What does it matter if someone uses my Wi-Fi?” So we wanted to go over the potential...
The Story of a Model Sales Rep. and his Personal Cloud Sharing Solution We wrote a blog article in the past on the dangers of utilizing a user-implemented cloud strategy. However today we wanted to focus on a possible scenario. The Model Sales Rep John works as a sales consultant for Acme Company. In...
Come April 8th, 2014, Windows will stop supporting their 12 year old operating system, meaning that it will no longer receive security updates, and therefore not comply with HIPAA regulations. For those of you who are concerned with the liability that comes with being non-compliant (Read our previous blog article “The Misconceptions of HIPAA” for more...
Is your software nearing its End of Life? Chances are your organization uses one of the many versions of Microsoft’s operating systems. As Microsoft releases new versions, the older versions are slowly dropped off the list of which operating systems they choose to update and support. So how does this affect you? There are perhaps...
Cryptolocker is a malicious piece of “ransomware” which infects your computer, locking your data files and charging an amount of money be paid to receive a key to unlock the data affected. If you do not have a backup copy of the data or do not pay the ransom in the stated time, Cryptolocker will...
The Misconceptions of HIPAA I know what you’re thinking, HIPAA has been around since the 90’s right? So why is it that all of a sudden everyone seems to be talking about compliance issues and things that need to be changed to become compliant? You’re probably saying to yourself “I’ve never had any compliance issues,...
These days there are more security threats than ever before. The simplest precaution you can take is to have a good password and to change it frequently. I know, I know, everyone thinks us techies are just paranoid; However, we are not paranoid geeks, we just understand how hacking technology works and we want you...
Email communication is a very sophisticated item that is changing on a daily basis and most of the time its evolving because of the heavy use of spam bots. As email administrators and software become smarter, so do the bots in efforts of finding ways around those evolving technologies. We decided to write this post...
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Located in Ferndale, Fuse Technology Group is the premier provider of Business IT Services. Providing business computer support to hundreds of clients in Detroit, Troy, Southfield, Royal Oak, Birmingham and throughout the state of Michigan.
