Pixel Health Launches Nationwide Technology Consulting Effort
Pixel Health companies work with health systems, hospitals, clinics, and medical practices across North America.
BHN Establishes Partnership for Information Technology Services
Area’s largest behavioral health services organization chooses baytechIT HOLYOKE, MA 2/19/2021 — Recognizing a need for greater digital expertise and capacity to support a successful and growing enterprise, Behavioral Health Network (BHN) has turned to one of the nation’s only healthcare-centric managed service providers to manage its extensive information technology operation. Holyoke-based baytechIT (bIT)…
Don’t Just Phish
Recently, a fellow CISO asked a group of us if we “punished employees who consistently failed to recognize phishing emails.” This created a great discussion with most folks agreeing that punishment rarely works and often has negative effects (including potential for legal action). After all, hackers take advantage of people’s willingness to be helpful or…
Protect Yourself by Protecting Your Smartphone
Talk to any Chief Information Security Officer and they’ll tell you that the weakest link in their organization is always the individual. Take smartphones for example. They’re designed with security in mind but that protection is compromised each and every day. 70 million smartphones are lost each year, with only 7 percent recovered Users are…
Be Cautious Using Google Search
The “bad guys” constantly look for ways to trick users into giving up information or download malicious software that will steal information. One of the easiest ways for them to do this is to get you to click on links that show up using a search engine. Given the popularity of Google search, bad actors…
Vishing, Smishing, and Phishing. It’s more than Alphabet Soup!
I’ve talked a number of times about Phishing and we’ve talked about Smishing. Today, I want to touch on the subject of Vishing. Vishing is Phishing using voice. This isn’t new. You’ve all either received or know of folks who’ve received, phone calls from folks pretending to be from “Microsoft Support” or “Visa”. You may…
‘Tis the Season…for Threat Actors to stuff their stockings with your money, or your data.
Phishing, scams increase significantly over the holidays. This year, there is even a greater risk from these scams because folks are doing even more online now, due to Covid-19, than any other holiday season. While a large number of these scams are related to online shopping, free gift cards, credit card offers, and even shipping…
SMiShing
No, this isn’t a typo. SMiShing is the SMS version of phishing scams but instead of a bad email, you get a bad text message on your smartphone. While smishing has been around for years, its use has increased significantly since March, all thanks to the Coronavirus. According to the FTC, 52,500 Americans have filed…
Qbot: Using the Election as Bait
Yes, we are talking about Phishing… again! The complex methods used by Threat Actors today makes me long for the days when malicious emails were comprised of either very poor English, or someone telling me that I was being gifted $1,000,000 by some person I never heard of in some far away country! The current…
Multifactor Authentication: What I Know + What I Have
Multifactor authentication (MFA) or Two-Factor authentication (2FA) works on the principle of “something you know” plus “something you have (or are).” “Something you know” is your username and password. “Something you have” can be a smartphone, USB security key, your fingerprint or face, or other physical object in your possession that can be used to…
