Workplace Safety Is Personal: The Message of Lee Shelby

Workplace safety policies, procedures, and training are essential, but lasting safety often comes down to the decisions people make in critical moments.

That is the message behind Lee Shelby, a workplace safety and motivational speaker who turned a life-changing workplace accident into a mission to help others make safer decisions. Through 1 Voice Matters, Lee works with organizations to make safety personal, memorable, and relevant to the people performing the work every day.

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NSA Warning: PHP Websites Should Be Updated Immediately

The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued an urgent cybersecurity advisory warning organizations to prepare for and apply critical PHP security updates as soon as they become available. According to the NSA, the vulnerabilities could provide attackers with a direct path to a web server’s file system or database, creating significant security risks for websites and web applications running PHP. [nsa.gov], [nsa.gov]

Why This Matters

PHP is one of the most widely used 

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Intuit & QuickBooks Cybersecurity Alert

Cyber Security

We have been alerted to a new Phishing scam that effects Quickbook and Intuit customers. Recently, Intuit published a security notice on their website warning customers of a Phishing scam which appears to be a direct email from Intuit’s customer service department using the domain of “intuit-solution”.  This sender is not associated with Intuit nor is it an authorized agent of Intuit. If you receive an email from this domain or any other email that appears suspicious, do not click on any links or attachments, do not reply to the email and do not forward it to anyone. It is recommended that you delete the email. If you mistakenly click or have already clicked on a link or downloaded something from the email, immediately (1) delete the download (2) scan your system using an up-to-date anti-virus program and (3) change your passwords. 

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Announcing Extended Support Hours

To better serve our customers, we are pleased to announce that beginning Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, we will be extending our regular office hours to 8am-8pm, Monday-Friday. We will continue to have emergency support technicians available after-hours from 8pm-8am and weekends.

We appreciate our clients’ loyalty to South Jersey Techies over the last 18+ years. Whether a new, existing or soon-to-be client, we value your support and business to our team. As our business has grown, so has our team. This has given us the capacity to extend our regular office hours to provide your company the best possible support throughout the day.

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L2TP VPN Connections Break as part of January 2022 Patch Tuesday

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Update 1/28/2022: South Jersey Techies has released OOB updates to fix the Windows L2TP VPN connection issues.

Microsoft released Windows updates to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs as part of the January 2022 Patch Tuesday that came with fixes for six zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 97 flaws.

These updates also included KB5009566 for Windows 11 and KB5009543 for Windows 10 2004, 20H1, and 21H1.

 

Problems are being reported rapidly from Windows 10 users and administrators who are trying to make L2TP VPN connections after installing the recent Windows 10 KB5009543 and

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Critical iPhone Spyware Fix Released

Apple has updated its software for iPhones to address a critical vulnerability that independent researchers say has been exploited by notorious surveillance software to spy on a Saudi activist.

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the software exploit has been in use since February and has been used to deploy Pegasus, the spyware made by Israeli firm NSO Group that has allegedly been used to surveil journalists and human rights advocates in multiple countries.

The urgent update that Apple (AAPL) released Monday plugs a hole in the iMessage software that allowed hackers to infiltrate a user’s phone without the user clicking on any links, according to Citizen Lab. The Saudi activist chose to remain anonymous, Citizen Lab said.

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