Category: Accent
773M Password Megabreach is Years Old
Posted on 13th February 2019
My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were...
Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 8)
Posted on 8th February 2019
What’s Managed Services?
Posted on 22nd January 2019
by Jacob Nolley, Marketing Manager/Accent Consulting Services, LLC
You've gotten a call, email, or letter talking about Managed Services (MSP), but you have no idea what that...
5 Tips to Choosing the Partner that is Right for You
Posted on 3rd January 2019
by Jacob Nolley, Marketing Manager/Accent Consulting Services, LLC
Take a second to think about your ideal partner...
I am sure that your outsourced IT partner was...
More than 500 million Marriott guests’ information was hacked. Here’s what you need to know.
Posted on 19th December 2018
The Marriott data breach may have been the result of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort, according to a report by the New York Times. Marriott announced the hack on November 30, saying hackers targeted its Starwood reservation system and accessed the personal...
Hackers installed ‘sophisticated’ malware on Newegg’s servers to steal customer data
Posted on 25th September 2018
Newegg is investigating a data breach that may have compromised credit card details and other information about its customers, though the full extent of the damage is not yet known. "Yesterday, we learned one of our servers had been injected with...
Why you should be concerned about the dark web
Posted on 2nd May 2018
What is the Dark Web? Dark web is a blanket term used to describe part of the World Wide Web that requires special software to access it. It is also any site that hasn’t been indexed by a search engine, meaning...
Eye Opening and Terrifying: How Easy it is to Hack Technology
Posted on 12th April 2018
I recently had the pleasure of attending a conference where Kevin Mitnick, the "world's most famous hacker," presented. Kevin is a bestselling author, and top cyber security speaker who hacked into 40 major corporations simply for the challenge...
Despite FBI Warning – Two Texas Employers Fall for W-2 Phishing Scam
Posted on 8th March 2018
With the US tax filing deadline just a little over a month away, tax-themed phishing season is also upon us. Watch out for compromised email accounts or spoofed emails pretending to be from company executives requesting W-2 information. These scam emails...
SamSam Ransomware Hits Colorado DOT – Shuts Down 2,000 Computers
Posted on 28th February 2018
The Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) has shut down over 2,000 computers after systems got infected with the SamSam ransomware on Wednesday, February 21. The agency's IT staff is working with its antivirus provider McAfee to remediate affected workstations and safeguard...