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Technology News and More for the Week of May 23rd, 2017

pexels-photo-340742.jpegIn this weeks episode of Bottom Line IT hosts Erik Jacobsen and Mike Maddox discuss recent technology topics including What FBI Paid for Access to San Bernardino Killer’s iPhone, Ingham County Gets Hit with Virus and more. 

What FBI Paid for Access to San Bernardino Killer’s iPhone:

The amount paid by the FBI to successfully gain access to the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino’s iphone was revealed in a recent Senate hearing.  It was a staggering amount and its revelation has reignited the debate about privacy. For more click here!

Facebook and Google Reveal that They Were Victims of Huge Phishing Scam:

Even the biggest tech companies in the world are not immune from cyberattack and huge losses.  Facebook and Google revealed recently that they were victimized by a massive phishing scam. Click here for more!

Massive Scam Involving Google Docs – What You Need to Know:

As a kind of public service announcement, Mike and Erik discuss the Google Docs scam and how to avoid it.  While Google was able to respond and remediate this attack very quickly it was not before significant damage was done. For more click here!

Ingham County Gets Hit with Virus:

Hitting very close to home- Ingham County Michigan, home of ASK, was recently breached which resulted in a two week outage.  Mike and Erik discuss how no business or entitiy is immune.  More importantly how successful cyber security plans are built and how to avoid developing a plan that is doomed to fail. For more click here!

CyberCrime as a Service- You Won’t Believe How it Works:

This segment may amaze you and scare you.  The dark web has devolved to the point of offering hacking and cyber crime as a service.  In other words, if you are a bad guy looking to cause harm- you don’t even have to have skills anymore.  You can simply buy virus or malware as a service! For more click here!

Practical CyberSecurity for Your Business:

Josh Gembala presents “Practical CyberSecurity for Your Business” at ASK/ Foster Swift customer event called “It’s Not If- It’s When” Event. For more click here!

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