Technology Advisor Blog

The holidays are here, many larger companies have gone on company freeze, while many smaller businesses are beginning to close their devices to focus on family instead of work. During this time, it’s essential to ensure all safeguards are set up, that way cybercriminals don’t find an opportunity to cause havoc while you’re away.  As your expert IT cybersecurity ally, we will discuss the steps you and your business should initiate in terms of updates, network safety, and phishing attempts before you clock out of the office.

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Between November and December, whether for work or the holidays, flights can be the most stressful part of anyone’s day when traveling. In most cases, arriving at the airport means keeping up to date with flight times, terminal changes, boarding times, checked luggage, TSA security, and arriving hours before your flight just to get through all checkpoints efficiently.
As stressful as it is, scammers are weaponizing the high emotional stress circling around flight schedules and doing the extra digging for your checked bag tags. Coming down the runway, travelers must be aware of fake airline texts, emphasizing cancelled flights and changes to be made expeditiously. With the world we live in, it’s best to keep your flight itinerary, luggage tags, and ticket information to yourself.

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Are you someone that does not want any trace of work on your phone with the intent of separate work from home? Well, you’re not alone.
It’s understandable that you would want to have a personal device that has no affiliation to work or receive any work-related phone calls. However, with threat actors ruthlessly and creatively generating scams for folks to fall victim to, it’s important to understand the benefits of using multi factor authentication across multiple devices.

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For a lot of us, to put our best selves forward, we need peace of mind that ‘home’ is safe. According to USA Today, devices such as Ring, wyze and other forms of surveillance cameras have seen a significant increase in popularity for folks to monitor their own front door, their children or pets while on a trip, or just simply having that confirmation that your significant other arrived home safely. In other cases, it provides full streaming, detecting motion indoors/outdoors, two-way talk, and more.

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The Ekaru team does not slow down in the summertime, we continue by providing local businesses with our specialized skills in cybersecurity to ensure your business has the best tools and security practices in place to protect your team and its assets. We mentioned in a previous blog post that cyber criminals will target travelers when they are away from their desks, especially in the quieter months for work and PTO.
To target travelers with social engineering, scammers will try anything to cause a strong emotional reaction that leads you to making a quick, flustered decision.
How are they doing this now and in the summer, you may ask; cyber criminals are creating hyper realistic sophisticated scams through targeted social media ads and email promotions with too good to be true vacation prices. The goal for them is to create a sense of escapism, love the idea of a trip that you cannot give up on, and all at a fair price that makes you want to impulsively take your credit card and proceed, without taking a moment to be skeptical.
In these scenarios, how you react may either omit safety or have you flustered for falling for a scam. Either way, we are here to help and provide you with awareness, you, your team, friends and family will appreciate.

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Are you sharing too much information in your Out of Office message?  One of our core values at Ekaru is being "Friendly and Helpful".  In that spirit, I used to include a lot of information in my Out of Office Auto-Reply... because I wanted to be friendly and helpful! 

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It’s Summertime!!! You know what that means, our accumulated PTO is finally put to use to enjoy the outdoors and travel. For some, people travel is local, while others travel internationally for an adventure like no other. While traveling, your cellphone is your most prized possession, capturing memories, laughs and a focal point into monitoring your social media and other necessities.

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