John Michaud Computer Services

Ontario Provincial Police - West Region
October 20, 2020 ·
We normally do NOT participate in these types of social media posts, but figured it could not hurt this time with the amount of fraud related incidents that the OPP is currently investigating.
***(borrowed this from some other police services)***
Where did you grow up : STOP
Favourite song: GIVING
First pet's name: PEOPLE
Street you grew up on: YOUR
Favourite childs name: PERSONAL
Favourite sports team: INFO
High School you attended: TO
Favourite food: GUESS
What was your first car: YOUR
Mothers maiden name: PASSWORD
First job: AND
Favourite band: SECURITY
Favourite food: QUESTIONS
The OPP is urging everyone to protect and guard their personal and financial information at all times. Check out the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre to stay on top of all the scams happening in our communities. Take care and stay safe, Ed ^es

Like doing all the little quizzes about yourself on Facebook, might want to read this first.

Ukrainian hackers used quizzes to access private Facebook data, company says A pair of Ukrainian hackers used seemingly innocuous online quizzes and surveys to gain access to private Facebook user data, a lawsuit alleges.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/get-organized-20-tips-for-working-from-home

20 Tips for Working From Home The outbreak of the coronavirus has most people working from home. If you're new to working remotely, these tips from a home-office pro can help you stay productive and maintain balance.

A good article on email or text scams

If You Get These Texts, Delete Them Immediately Friends and family aren’t the only ones who text you. Scammers do too! The post If You Get These Texts, Delete Them Immediately appeared first on Reader's Digest.

It's a new year and a good time to check your backup integrity. To do this create a dummy file on your desktop and wait for it to backed up, (if you have a good system in place this should happen automatically, either right away or during the nightly backup depending on what type of backup you have).
Than after it is back up delete the file and then try to restore it from your backup.
If you have someone looking after all of this for you (hint hint) then check to make sure that they have done this or something similar to ensure your backup is functioning properly.
Remember backups are one of the least checked systems in most businesses and one of the most important, your data matters.

Really liking the replacement for snipit, Snip & Sketch, markup tools are really handy. Can see me using this all the time.

So much of the time security is just a matter of knowledge, if your going to open that email or visit that site with all the "free" stuff, nothing is going to protect you.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/major-zero-day-ransomware-attack-strikes-ucl-university-campus/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_featured&ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=23016549

Almost evey major hospital in England at once
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-cyber-attack-systems-knocked-offline/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_related&ftag=TREc64629f&bhid=23016549

It just never ends, http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-godfather-of-ransomware-returns-locky-is-back-and-sneakier-than-ever/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-best-practices-secure-your-business-against-andrew-w-loniak