Fraudulent Email Alert

Security researchers from Symantec are warning about a recently intercepted flood of Xmas themed malicious and fraudulent campaigns. Isn’t it too early for such type of campaigns to be launched, or are the spammers behind these campaigns relying on a different set of marketing tactics? The campaign is a great example of a flawed event-based social engineering attempt. Not only are the senders completely unknown by the recipients, but also, users are exposed to fraudulent E-shops for counterfeit shops, something that weren’t looking for to begin with.

The mentality behind these types of campaigns is fairly simple – starting from the basic fact that a user will not be interested in requesting bulk orders of viagra by default, the cybercriminals are relying on incidental discovery of their fraudulent proposition in an attempt to convert these users into potential customers.

Over the past year, we’ve seen numerous attempts to entice users into clicking on these links, by impersonating a legitimate message or notification from a respected, trusted and well known brands. These are prone to intensify over the next two months.

Users are advised to avoid clicking on links found in such messages, and to report them as spam immediately.

Course of Action

If your organization is being infiltrated by spam emails such as the those described above, then we encourage you to contact us at Expetec for on-demand computer network repair.

Source credit:  Zdnet.com

Hear Mike Klein explain how private cloud computing has become a game-changer when it comes to disaster recovery.

IT disaster recovery is making sure you can recover your systems and your data. If you have either a disaster that takes out your production IT system or you have an outage for an extended period of time, a disaster recovery plan can help you recover and get your systems and your data back up and online.

In today’s environment so many businesses are critically dependent on their IT infrastructure. Having a disaster recovery plan and making sure you can recover your data and your systems in a time-effective fashion is really critical to the survival of most organizations and making sure they can survive any disaster that may hit their IT infrastructure.

So the options for disaster recovery really depend on two things – it depends on your RTO, or recovery time objective, which is how quick you need to recover from your disaster. It also depends on your budget. The two are kind of tied together. If, for example, if you need to recover your data in a 7-day time frame, it’s going to be a lot more cost-effective than if you need to make sure that you can recover your data and your infrastructure in a 5-minute time frame.

So the best way to think about that is, there’s really a kind of spectrum – on one end of the spectrum, there’s off-site backup where you’re looking at a very cost-effective solution, something where your recovery time objective or RTO is really measured in days – 3-7 days.

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Dear Business Associates,

I firmly believe in giving back to the community and creating opportunities for others and this is one way we at Expetec Technology Services of Rochester is giving back.

I will soon be honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at a special event recognizing outstanding young professionals in my community. In accepting this distinction, I have committed to raise money to help the Foundation realize its mission of controlling and curing cystic fibrosis (CF).

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a devastating genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. More than ten million Americans are symptomless carriers of the defective CF gene. Advances continue to be made in finding a cure, but your help is needed now-more than ever-to help keep up the momentum of this life-saving research.

When the Foundation began in 1955, most children with CF did not live to see their first day of elementary school. Today, the median life expectancy for people with CF is almost 37. This is remarkable progress, but not good enough. We continue to lose precious lives to CF every day. To learn more about CF and the CF Foundation, visit www.cff.org.

Together, we can make a difference in the lives of those with cystic fibrosis. Thank you for supporting the mission of the CF Foundation!

If your organization or a referral agrees to a managed service agreement with us between now and November 19th. We will donate the total amount of the Set up fee to CFF.

For any hardware products Laptops, Desktops, Servers, Firewalls, Anti-Virus etc. purchased I will donate on your behalf 15% of the Margin thank you for your support. Go to http://www.expetecrochester.com to make a request or call me at 248-943-6769

Thank you for your donation,

Michael St. John

VP of Sales and Marketing

Expetec Technology Services of Rochester