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Upcoming Holiday Hours – Nov. and Dec. 2024

Please find our upcoming holiday hours, through the end of 2024, below…

Monday, November 11, 2024 (Veterans Day): Closed
Wednesday, November 27, 2024: Closing Early
Thursday, November 28, 2024 (Thanksgiving): Closed
Friday, November 29, 2024: Closed

Monday, December 23, 2024: Closing Early
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 (Christmas Eve): Closed
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 (Christmas Day): Closed

Monday, December 30, 2024: Closing Early
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 (New Year’s Eve): Closed
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 (New Year’s Day): Closed

We hope that everyone has a happy and safe Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year holiday. All services will remain monitored throughout the holidays.

Cyber Security Awareness Month & Hurricane Helene

For a few years now, October has been “National Cyber Security Awareness Month”. This year, it is a good opportunity for a refresher on some scams that tend to happen around disasters like Hurricane Helene.

Click the article link to continue reading…

Source: Hurricane Helene Aftermath – Cyber Security Awareness Month – SANS Internet Storm Center

[Resolved] Email Connection Issue Sept 17 2024

3:00 PM – We are aware of an issue affecting some Widomaker email accounts. Customers who have an @widomaker.com (or @tni.net) email address may be affected. Additionally, some business customers using Widomaker’s “Enhanced Email” with their own domain name, may also be affected. Customers whose email is hosted on our Plesk servers are NOT affected.

Additional details from our server provider may be found at the link/button, below…

Incident Report: Cluster B – Webmail Login, mail client connect

3:30 PM – This incident is now resolved.

Operation Endgame – 300 Widomaker.com Email Accounts Found Among 16.5M Compromised Accounts

Operation EndgameWhat Happened?

Between May 27 and May 29, 2024, an international law enforcement operation, Operation Endgame, seized over 100 cybercrime servers worldwide. It’s being called the largest ever operation against botnets.

Approximately 300 (active and inactive) @widomaker.com email accounts, and passwords, were identified as having been potentially compromised for use by the Endgame cybercrime groups, sometime during the time period the groups were active. This means the affected users’ passwords were potentially compromised via remote access trojans (RATs) or info-stealers (malware installed on the users’ computers). To find out more, review the article and video, from Microsoft, about How malware can infect your PC

According to Spamhaus, “The botnet operators in question relied on compromised accounts to target victims and spread malicious emails. If a receiver interacted with one of these emails, it is highly likely that their device was infected. As a result, they probably became part of the targeted botnets.”

More details on Operation Endgame may be found at the links below…

What Should I Do?

The easiest way to tell if your email address is in the Operation Endgame data, or other data breaches, is to sign up, for free, to be notified when your email address appears in known data breaches, or is found, via law enforcement action, to be compromised, like in the case of Operation Endgame. The Have I Been Pwned notification service is free to individuals. Visit the HIBP website, via the link below, then click “Notify me” to sign up for notifications.

';–have i been pwned?

Most importantly, if you find that your email address(es) is/are in the Operation Endgame data, or other data breaches, you should scan your computers (or other devices) for malware, and reset the passwords of the affected email accounts to prevent further abuse. You may Contact our office for assistance.

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