Every day our team works hard to become Kansas City’s favorite MSP. As part of our core values, we strive to build ideal team players that embody the virtues of hungry, humble, and smart. While we are committed to delivering high-value solutions and services to our clients we are also committed to giving back to …
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Umbrella Managed Systems Launches Client Referral Program Umbrella asks their clients for referrals of organizations who need premium IT services. Kansas City, Missouri – Umbrella Managed Systems, Kansas City’s favorite Managed Services Provider, is excited to announce the launch of our new Client Referral Program. With this new referral program, Umbrella’s clients now have a …
Umbrella Welcomes our summer intern! Umbrella’s work to become Kansas City’s favorite MSP never stops! We are committed to providing premium IT services for our clients. Meeting these goals and delivering top-level IT services requires a team of talented individuals. For the summer of 2022, we are excited to welcome our new Sales and Marketing …
On December 9, 2021, a zero-day vulnerability (ie, previously unknown and not yet patched) concerning Java was detected by several threat-detection researchers. Named CVE-2021-44228, it exploits a weakness in the Java logging utility log4j. Log4j is used by nearly everything written in Java, from consumer software and web applications to enterprise products with names like …
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Umbrella Managed Systems, an MSP in Kansas City, is dedicated to managing our clients’ technology needs effectively and efficiently. Our leadership team has worked this past year to plan, build, and rally our team to improve our services offerings while further enhancing our cybersecurity features. As we continue to grow and improve year after year, …
On June 22, 2021, a hacker reportedly exposed the data of 700 million LinkedIn accounts, representing 92% of users. Luckily, there is no immediate reason to panic: Only publicly available information was breached, meaning private information, like user passwords, remains safe. Is this breach really a big deal? Yes. The breach made data from LinkedIn …
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A perfect storm of adverse events and increased demand has created a shortage among the world’s leading suppliers of semiconductor microchips. Every day, news sources feature articles talking about this chip shortage and how it’s hampering the production of everything from home appliances to PCs to autos. This shortage is also having an impact here …
There is a scam affecting multiple states where the billing service TRPN Direct Pay sends a $15 check that appears to be a legitimate payment of some kind. However, this payment is actually a one-time “license fee” that, if cashed, signs the healthcare provider up for a billing scheme where they greatly discount their services …
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Cyber criminals are going back to basics by targeting healthcare organizations via post. This is the latest in a string of inventive attack methods leveraged throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent warning from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) flagged this new tactic, in which victims receive …
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On March 2, 2021, Microsoft released a number of security updates to address recently exposed vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. Microsoft announced that the four vulnerabilities have been used as part of a limited, targeted attack chain, in which email communications were infected with malware which enables long-term access to the victims’ networks. Flaws in Exchange …