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The Website Design team of South Jersey Techies has been constantly working on developing great looking websites using the latest web technologies. The most recent website developed by our team is for L&D Design and Construction located in Linwood, New Jersey.

L&D Design and Construction is an interior and exterior design business in the South Jersey area serving Atlantic and Cape May County. Lauren McBride is the owner and main designer who has a true passion for helping her clients achieve their functional and aesthetic goals for all indoor and outdoor spaces. Lauren is known for having a brilliant eye for design and understanding exactly what her clients are looking for.

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Our Web Design team is here to help. Call us at: 856-745-9990 or visit: https://southjerseytechies.net.

South Jersey Techies, LLC is a full Managed Web and IT Services Company located in Marlton, NJ providing IT Services, Managed IT Services, Website Design Services, Server Support, IT Consulting, VoIP Phones, Cloud Solutions Provider and much more. Contact Us Today.

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. If you experience any issues and are worried you may have fallen subject to this scam, contact South Jersey Techies for immediate support.

Phishing is a cybercrime aimed to lure individuals into revealing personal information or expose them to downloads of malware that will infect their computer and networks. Phishing baits will impersonate real companies. The imposters are getting harder to spot and not all phishing scams work the same way.  You should never enter your username or password into a Login if you are not 100% confident of the source.  These scams are designed to retrieve sensitive information such as SSNs, credit card information and user names and passwords.

Following basic safety tips can help you keep your information safe:

• Protect your computer with anti-virus software.
• Keep your browser up to date and install any updates as they are pushed.
• Contact your bank and any other financial institutions you use if you are a victim of identity theft. Check with your credit reporting agencies often and spot check for any inconsistencies.
• Report any suspicious emails to your technology provider or third-party vendor so they may be tracked and logged.

If you have any questions, please email us at support@sjtechies.com or call us at (856) 745-9990.

Did you know more than 90% of data breaches start with a phishing email?

A successful ransomware attack can devastate any size organization. As examples from a recent survey, 50% of law firms, 42% of insurance brokers, 37% of non-profit organizations and 27% of retail companies lack a written incident response plan. And 34% said they don’t give employees phishing tests to determine their exposure to risk.

We have been actively recommending and implementing layers of security from the hosted level, firewall level, server level, computer level, policy level and now by the user level.

Organizations who have incident response plan (IRP) are able to respond more quickly and more effective than those without one. And for organizations in healthcare or financial services, having a plan may be required by law. If you don’t yet have an IRP, we can provide template plans for a variety of types of organizations and even can assist in writing one if need be.

We want to reduce your organization’s chance of experiencing a cybersecurity disaster by 70% security awareness training and provide an IRP if an attempt is made.

What is “phishing”?

Phishing emails look like they came from a person or organization you trust, but in reality they’re sent by hackers to get you to click on or open something that will give the hackers access to your computer.

Why are you at risk?

Hackers are actively targeting organizations because you have information that is valuable to them. Specifically, they may be interested in any type of valuable data, such as customer, patient, student, or employee data, intellectual property, financial account information, or payment card data.  If one employee falls for a phishing attack, the systems the employee uses can potentially be accessed. (We can run a report on your account to assess phishing attempts per account, contact us if you are interested in obtaining this report)

How to spot a phishing email

Hackers have gotten clever in how they design the emails they send out to make them look legitimate.  But phishing emails often have the following characteristics:

• Ask you for your username and password, either by replying to the email or clicking on a link that takes you to a site where you’re asked to input the information.
• Look like they come from the HR or IT Team
• Have grammatical errors
• Contain email addresses that don’t match between the header and the body, are misspelled (like @gmaill.com), or have unusual formats @company-othersite.com)
• Have links or email addresses that show a different destination if you hover over them
• Try to create a sense of urgency about responding

How can you prevent phishing emails?

Employees responding to phishing emails is still one of the biggest risks we see. Training your employees is an essential first step in making sure your data is never encrypted or held for ransom.

1. To help educate your employees about what to watch for, we’ve attached an employee tip sheet. You can download it HERE
2. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within DHS also have useful collections that include tip sheets. Click here.
3. In addition to tips we do have a solution that is a cloud-based training software that allows your business to train employees to aid with security awareness and phishing resistance. The platform allows us to setup and deliver simulated security threats and phishing incidents to educate and test employees. The training can be required and simulated emails will be sent, and if an employee falls for the threat testing, you would know and the employee can go through further testing. The cost is based per organization and is very reasonable. If there is an interest let us know.
4. Last year we started “hardening” in Microsoft 365 to prevent phishing email attempts as a preventative measure for protecting your accounts.
5. Similar to the “365 hardening” in #4 we have a new solution that is similar to the hardening but with more bells and whistles. The system works in an A.I. setup learning the types of emails you get and where they are coming from. Example. If you got an email from us regularly, but one email originated from a country in Europe not our usual IP address it would flag it. This system ties into 365 very nicely and even give the employees the ability to mark things phishing or safe, if needed. But once a message is marked safe the “outside email” banner will be removed for that email for the entire organization. The solution is a very reasonable cost per account, if there is an interest let us know.

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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.

Our hope is that the new extended hours will be more convenient for some of your users and allow us to provide support to those users at the regular rate.

If you or someone from the team needs support during those hours, please email support at support@sjtechies.com or call (856) 745-9990 to get scheduled with a member of our team

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to address multiple issues caused by Windows Updates issued during the January 2022 Patch Tuesday.

This update addresses issues related to VPN connectivity, Windows Server Domain Controllers restarting, Virtual Machines start failures, and ReFS-formatted removable media failing to mount.

All OOB updates released are available for download on the Microsoft Update Catalog, and some of them can also be installed directly through Windows Update as optional updates. You will have to manually check for updates if you want to install the emergency fixes through Windows Update because they are optional updates and will not install automatically.

Windows 10 – KB5010793
Details Here

Option 1: Run Windows Update, KB5010793 will appear under optional download.

Option 2: Download the patch from there: Microsoft Update Catalog
Please download the matching Windows 10 Version.

Windows 11 – KB5010795 or KB5008353 (may vary based on Windows Edition)
Details Here

Option 1: Run Windows Update, KB5010795 will appear under optional download. Select and install.

Option 2: Download the patch from there: Microsoft Update Catalog

If you have any questions, please email us at support@sjtechies.com or call us at (856) 745-9990.

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 Windows 11 KB5009566 cumulative updates and receiving the error below. L2TP VPN connections are being reported as broken when attempting to connect using the Windows VPN client by Windows users.

You will also receive an error code in the Event Log entries, code 789, stating that the connection to the VPN failed.

The bug is not affecting all VPN devices and seems only to be affecting users using the built-in Windows VPN client to make the connection. Some users have reported the bug affecting their Ubiquiti Site-to-Site VPN connections for those using the Windows VPN client. The bug also affects connections to SonicWall, Cisco Meraki, and WatchGuard Firewalls, with the latter’s client also affected by the bug.

How to fix the break?

Admins have been forced to remove the KB5009566 and KB5009543 updates, which immediately fixes the L2TP VPN connections on reboot.

However, you face the risk of removing all fixes for vulnerabilities patches released during the January 2022 Patch Tuesday when removing the update due to Microsoft’s bundling of all security updates in a single Windows cumulative update.

Weighing the risks of unpatched vulnerabilities versus the disruption caused by the inability to connect to VPN connections is something all Windows admins need to consider, carefully.

Microsoft’s January 2022 Patch Tuesday fixed numerous vulnerabilities in the Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol (CVE-2022-21843, CVE-2022-21890, CVE-2022-21883, CVE-2022-21889, CVE-2022-21848, and CVE-2022-21849) and in the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (CVE-2022-21914 and CVE-2022-21885) that could be causing the problems.

Unfortunately, there is no known fix or workaround for the L2TP VPN connection issues at this time.

If you have any questions, please email us at support@sjtechies.com or call us at (856) 745-9990.

Looking for something fun and free to do with the kids this season? Stop by our office, tune into 89.9FM on your car stereo and enjoy our Musical Light Display with the family!

Where: 229 North Locust Ave, Marlton, New Jersey 08053

When: 5pm thru midnight every night now until New Years Eve!

Park and Tune into 89.9FM

Park and Tune into 89.9FM