The Fastest Predators Find Their Prey!

When you think of ransomware attacks and data breaches you don’t think of how fast your files can be gone! Knowing the facts can help you think about how to be smarter if you can’t be faster. In the article attached you’ll see how fast hackers can steal you data. How much of your valuable data can be in 100,000 files? Now ask yourself the same question but increase that …

Losing A War In More Ways Than One!

This week the Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry was hacked. Which means, even though they have the money and access to technology, the cybercriminals are still winning the war. This leads to a big question of how are governments fighting this war, and are they really using all the possible assets available to them? With the political situation globally getting more tense, what will happen if the well funded hackers attack …

5 Stages of a Ransomware Attack!

I recently read a great article about ransomware, and while it was extremely geared toward techies, I thought it would be great to simplify it for time’s sake. The first thing to understand before I go into detail is that hackers don’t wake up to find you and hit you with ransomware. It is a skilled and timed precise attack. These aren’t just kids sitting in the basement on their …

Wow Labour Day Already!

Well it’s bitter sweet Labour Day is here, the end of summer, the beginning of school, and the time Cybercriminals LOVE!!! (see article below). While most of us will be enjoying a long weekend with family and friends, some people will be hard at work, HACKERS! They love these long weekends when most IT teams are off they make their attack. While they’ve been mining information about companies on the …

The Better the Lock…

When I bought my home I asked my locksmith for the “best lock available”, his answer, “the better the lock the better the lockpick”! See the article below. It seems that is true in the world of Cybercrime. The more we try to combat hackers the smarter they get. That’s not to say leave yourself open, it means armour up and protect yourself and prepare for possible recovery. We put …

Tech Support Appreciation!

We never call tech support just to say ‘hi how are you?’. No we call tech support when we need help. It could be a simple issue or it could be catastrophic!! Either way it’s because we need help, and we need it now. Usually customers who call tech support for any reason (IT, cell, TV, etc.) are friendly and polite, but sometimes they blow up from the time the …

Ransomware Attacks At All Time High!

Ransomware has overtaken as the worst act of cybercrime. The days of ‘simple’ hacking are still around, but compared to having your systems locked and inaccessible it’s nothing. There is a cost to all this that has gone mostly undiscussed. The cost of downtime, loss of business and the worst is loss of credibility with customers / clients. You’ve spent years building this trust and in one key stroke it’s …

How Much Are You Willing To Lose?

It’s not just the cost of the ransom or other financial costs, which will be exorbitant! Its the downtime of your business, the lost confidence of your clients, that’s where you suffer the biggest loss! Nuvollo can help with the industry Best in Practice security, back ups, and a complete host of IT services. Our goal is keeping you up and running! (click the image to read a great article)

Any IT issue, we will dig and hold on to the issue right until we get it fixed.

Have you ever encountered a difficult IT issue that appears almost impossible to get resolved?    We often get challenged by our clients and users that way.   It may be an application being run by an overseas group that somehow lost connectivity and does not want to connect.   Or voice quality that badly degrades a few times a week.   Or a user account that seems to get locked for no reason …