OnSite I.T. Blog

Security researchers have found that a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign delivered spyware to Al Jazeera journalists and others… without them ever clicking a link. The exploit, dubbed "AdFection," operated entirely through digital advertisements that simply had to load on a user's screen to execute the attack.

Let’s examine the situation and what it can tell us about cybersecurity moving forward.

What do you focus on when one of your team members leaves? When employees leave a company, business owners often focus on transitioning the daily workload. Unfortunately, this often overlooks an important fact: departed team members will frequently leave active digital credentials behind that quietly create massive security risks.

Let’s talk about it.

It’s that time of year when we all like to embrace the kinds of things that scare us—everything that goes bump in the night, makes our skin crawl, and turns our blood to ice. While most of the time, it is all in good fun, there’s always a hint of truth in the scary stories we tell that holds a crucial lesson. Sometimes, this lesson can even apply to our businesses.

Let’s reimagine an old standby as an example of such a story.

Every office has at least one…a workstation wallpapered with sticky notes and reminders, plus an ever-present pile of coffee cups and snack wrappers encroaching on the keyboard.

This kind of clutter is legitimately distracting, making it harder for our brains to focus on the task at hand by eating up our limited mental bandwidth with background noise. As a result, maintaining a cleaner, streamlined workspace is a legitimate strategy to boost actual productivity.

Clicking "Restart Later" on a software update notice feels like a quick productivity win when you are in the middle of a workday. Stopping what you are doing to let a machine reboot for ten minutes seems inconvenient when you have work to complete.

The problem is that those ten-minute delays stack up fast. What starts as a minor delay usually ends up as an avoidable network outage, a security incident, or hours of wasted payroll.