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It’s summer, and it’s hot. Really hot. The kids are out of school, and summer vacations are in full swing everywhere.

Isn’t it good to know that Carolinas Net Care is never on vacation?

Well, I should probably clarify that, in case you are tempted to report us to the Department of Labor. We do take vacations – and give all of our systems engineers and technicians time off, too. But not at the same time. And that’s the key to maintaining ...

It wasn’t a great movie. In fact, it had almost been forgotten until George Clooney and his friends produced a remake in 2001.

It was Ocean’s 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickenson, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and a number of other famous Hollywood stars. The premise was pretty simple: a group of ex-military friends would rob five Las Vegas casinos on a single night. ...

From time to time, we’ll use this blog to update you on specific security alerts of which you should be aware. This post regards a specific phishing attack that we are seeing with increasing frequency.

This attack occurs when an email is received appearing to be from a known sender, and including an attachment. Attempting to open the attachment results in an immediate prompt for a username and password. Do NOT enter your username and password when opening an email attachment.

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At our 2018 Spring Technology Briefing two weeks ago, we covered more of what seems to be our favorite topic these days: security.

From time-to-time, we all feel as if it’s all we write and talk about. It’s not. But it is on our minds and our agendas every day. There are a lot of bad dudes out there. You came to Carolinas Net ...

You remember Linus. He’s Lucy’s little brother in Charles Schultz’ famous Peanuts cartoon series.

(I’d post a picture, but I don’t want to pay a royalty. We do everything possible to keep your costs down.)

Anyway, Linus never went anywhere without his security blanket. He always held it in his left hand. As long as his security blanket was by his side, he never worried about anything. He could cope. He could maneuver. He could withstand any evil force with his trusty ...

You’d have to live in a cave (without television or the internet) not to know security and privacy are the catchwords of the IT industry in 2018.

Or perhaps a desert island. Or the moon.

Even then, it would be hard to escape the constant barrage of news item after news item telling of the latest breach of data or inadvertent sharing of personal data to the dark web (or worse).

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(Or, “How Can I Give Myself a Little Extra Protection on the World Wide Web?)

Here we go again. While technically not a security breach, we were reminded this week something we all know already but sometimes conveniently choose to ignore:

Almost everything we do online is being monitored…somewhere…by someone…for some purpose.

Let me say first this article has nothing to do with politics, at least ...