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Recent vulnerability affects many Dell systems

A new vulnerability affecting most Dell computers was announced this week.  The vulnerability cannot be exploited remotely – but we have remediated the issue. Our NOC team prepared an automation and removed the vulnerable file from all Dell systems supported...

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Ubiquiti breach

Ubiquiti, a vendor best known for inexpensive and reliable Wi-Fi gear has been hacked.  Rumor is that an employee’s LastPass credentials were stolen, which allowed hackers access to Ubiquiti’s entire...

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Patch-related printing bug

An update that Microsoft released in March caused issues for many users, ranging from printouts and PDF exports containing no text, jumbled text/graphics, applications freezing or giving errors, or even a full system crash (aka “blue...

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More spam/phish than ever

Our service desk always gets a lot of questions about whether or not an email is legitimate.  If you suspect an email is not legitimate, it probably is not – usually your gut instinct is correct here.  95% of the...

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Internet Explorer going away August 17th, 2021

Legacy Edge (the first version of the Edge Browser) and Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be able to access any Microsoft online services on August 17th of this year.  Microsoft has installed tools to redirect users to the new Edge Browser. On March 9th 2021,...

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