Winxnet Named One of 2017 Tech Elite Solution
Providers by CRN
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 Tech
Elite 250 list recognizes IT solution providers
with deep technical expertise and premier
certifications
PORTLAND,
Maine -
Winxnet announced today that
CRN, a
brand of
The Channel Company, has named Winxnet
to its 2017 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual
list honors an exclusive group of North American
IT solution providers that have earned the
highest number of advanced technical
certifications from leading technology vendors,
scaled to their company size.
"It is a
privilege to be recognized on CRN's Tech Elite
250 list for the third consecutive year," said
Chris Claudio, CEO of Winxnet. "This is a
testament to our technical expertise as well as
the dedication, hard work, and integrity of our
people."
To compile the annual
list, The Channel Company's research group and
CRN editors work together to identify the most
customer-beneficial technical certifications in
the North American IT channel. Solution
providers that have obtained these elite
designations--which enable them to deliver
premium products, services and customer
support--are then selected from a pool of online
applicants.
"This exclusive, ambitious
group of solution providers boasts some of the
most advanced IT certifications available from
top technology suppliers," said Robert Faletra,
CEO, The Channel Company. "They have adapted
impressively to major changes in the IT channel,
especially the shift to a more services-driven
market, by expanding their skill sets and
sharpening both their technical and customer
service expertise. Congratulations to our 2017
list, whose robust investment in their
organizations has earned them yet another elite
designation--the CRN Tech Elite 250."
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SMB Vulnerability Best Practices |
Posted on
3/6/2017 8:47:31 AM by Dr. Eugene Slobodzian
In response to public reporting of a potential
Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability last
month, the United States Computer Emergency
Readiness Team (US-CERT) is recommending that
organizations disable older versions of the
Windows SMB protocol and use firewall rules to
provide added protection.
SMB is widely
used in Microsoft operating systems to provide
access to files at a remote server as well as
other resources. Version 1 of that protocol was
used on the older operating systems. The US-CERT
says administrators should disable SMB v1 and
block all SMB traffic at network boundaries as a
precaution. By default, his service is
universally available for Windows systems, and
could allow a remote attacker to obtain
sensitive information. While incoming SMB
traffic is most likely already blocked at the
firewall (ingress), administrators should
explicitly forbid this traffic going from
internal hosts to the Internet (egress).
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Two Russian Spies Charged for Massive Yahoo
Breach |
Posted on
3/23/2017 8:51:58 AM by Dr. Eugene Slobodzian
 In
late 2016, I wrote a brief post about how
one billion Yahoo accounts were hacked. Last
December Yahoo revealed that it suffered a
security breach back in 2013 that compromised
more than
one billion accounts. This, however, is
different than the breach that occurred in
September of 2014 where over
500 million user accounts had been hacked.
These two attacks are the largest breaches of
one company's computer network.
Last
week, the US government charged two Russian
spies and two criminal hackers. All four were
involved with the 2014 Yahoo hack that
compromised about 500 million Yahoo user
accounts.
In this hack they
managed to get a hold of a secret directory that
contained Yahoo usernames, encrypted passwords,
security questions and answers, and other
important information. Then the hackers used
this sensitive data to ‘fool' Yahoo servers into
thinking the bad guys' web browsers were already
logged into Yahoo's online services. This
technique is called cookie stealing.
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March 2017 |
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Winxnet Named One of 2017 Tech Elite Solution
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SMB Vulnerability Best Practices |
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Two Russian Spies Charged for Massive Yahoo
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