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05/26/2025

04/26/2025

The Rotary Club of Broomall thanks Syncretic Network and Security Services (https://syncretic.com Syncretic) for their generous sponsorship of our club and Firecracker 5k Run (firecracker5krun.com).

Our club (with contributions from our members and sponsors) continues to provide services and support to our community. Here are some of the projects our club has contributed to: Little Free Library, 3 Books and a backpack, Community Service Grants, inclusive playground, bocce courts, local tree plantings, and literacy projects.

Please sign up for our 5k Run/Walk on the 4th of July. https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Broomall/BroomallSRotaryThOfJuly5KRun

Please consider donating to the Rotary Club of Broomall and helping us support our great initiatives. Donations can be sent to Broomall Rotary Foundation, P.O. Box 37, Broomall, PA 19008.

11/24/2024

08/25/2024

Steve Gibson did a great job of covering the National Public Data massive breach. You can find his podcast and show notes for Episode #988 here: https://lnkd.in/egB3YxeB

TLDR: On August 6th, Wolf Technology Group () tweeted: “National Public Data, a service by Jerico Pictures Inc., suffered a massive breach. Hacker “Fenice” leaked 2.9 billion records with personal details, including full names, addresses, and SSNs in plain text. The breach poses significant risks for identity theft and financial fraud. Jerico Pictures Inc. faces potential lawsuits and legal challenges due to the incident.”

Steve suggests going to this site to see if your private data was included: https://npd.pentester.com/

Here’s how to freeze (not lock) your credit: https://lnkd.in/ezDf5drJ

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

02/16/2024

Everyone should have a plan. Here’s a plan to use to avoid being scammed:

1) Don’t panic. They want you to panic.
2) Take a deep breath and slow things down. They don’t want you to slow things down. They want you to act irrationally without thinking.
3) Take down their name, institution, and phone number.
4) Explain you must call them back – tell them you are dealing with a personal crisis (you will be if you don’t follow your plan) and must clean up that mess first.
5) Do not call them back on the number they gave you nor the caller ID on your phone.
6) Call a trusted advisor, your bank, your spouse (family member), or other financial institution on a known or published number from a bank statement or from finding the correct institution website. Especially if they tell you not to.
7) Never give out personal information to someone who called you.
8) Don’t answer the phone for unknown numbers. Let them leave a message.


Important clues/actions:

1) When they tell you don’t trust anyone – Don’t trust them!
2) When they tell you not to call anyone about this situation – Hang up.
3) When they tell you they are from a federal agency, sheriff, police, or CIA. Hang up.
4) When they tell you there will be consequences – Tell them you’ve dealt with consequences before. You can handle it. Then hang up.

I’m still trying to understand why I fell for it.

01/20/2024

Are you paying attention to the changes Google is making to advertising and Chrome? Remember “Cookies?” Remember how “Cookies” could be used by websites and advertises to gather information about you? Big changes are going on behind the scenes (in Chrome).

Third-party “Cookies” will soon be end of life. Advertising auctions within your Chrome browser (in the background) will be the new way advertisers target you. Yes. Your browser is doing more than you know.

Is this bad? Not necessarily. There’s a better privacy component to the new method. Steve Gibson does a great job of explaining it in his podcast this week.

Want to know more? Listen to Steve Gibson’s (GRC.com) podcast (Episode #957 | 16 Jan 2024) or read his show notes.
Show Notes:https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-957-notes.pdf
Podcast: https://media.grc.com/sn/sn-957-lq.mp3

Or check out this article from AdGuard: https://adguard.com/en/blog/chrome-cookies-third-party-replacement.html

Chrome has begun phasing out third-party cookies, the infamous tracking tool, for 1% of its users. Why is this happening? And how good is the replacement?

01/19/2024

Facebook is collecting data on everyone, whether you have a Facebook account or not. Why are apps free on your cell phone? The app developer is getting money from somewhere, usually data brokers – some you know, like Facebook and some you’ve never heard of. Those apps send your information (location, activity, searches) and receive money for your information.

How is it that you are receiving targets ads? How did Facebook or another app know what ad to serve you? Regardless of where you searched for something, the data brokers are gathering information to target advertising.

Delete apps you don’t use. Install apps that are useful and remove the ones that you really don’t need.

Your data is valuable. Your privacy (what’s left of it) is at stake.

Please support Consumer Reports. They do really good work.

A Consumer Reports investigation found that Facebook collected data on each user from an average of 2,230 companies.

09/08/2023

Good article from ars Technica concerning Google's new user-tracking ad platform - more of your privacy out the window.

Take the time to read the article and opt out to the extent you can - under Privacy and Security (sic).

"feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it's built directly into the Chrome browser."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

08/15/2023

Remember this about scams, "Cash, Don't Mute the Call, or Stay On the Line" means put the brakes on! Great post by https://lnkd.in/et9PPZc9 on twitter (x) yesterday.

06/19/2023

Find another way to pay! This has been in the news a lot and we've seen companies and people being burned.

"Why You Should Stop Sending Checks in the Mail, Especially Now"

https://lifehacker.com/why-you-should-stop-sending-checks-in-the-mail-especia-1850543113

Check fraud is exploding, and it's easy to steal checks from the mail.

05/27/2023

Syncretic rolls out Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to our customers to protect them 24/7.

In today's ever-changing threat landscape, it is more important than ever for businesses to have a comprehensive cybersecurity solution in place. Managed detection and response (MDR) is a service that can help businesses to protect themselves from a wide range of threats, including malware, ransomware, and data breaches.

MDR services typically include 24/7 monitoring of a business's IT infrastructure, as well as the ability to detect and respond to threats quickly and effectively. This can free up businesses to focus on their core operations, knowing that their IT security is in good hands.

Syncretic is rolling out MDR to our customers. We leverage a team of experienced cybersecurity experts who are available 24/7 to monitor our customers’ networks and detect threats. In the event of a threat, we can quickly respond to stop the threat.

If you are looking for a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that can help you to protect your business from a wide range of threats, then Syncretic can help. Contact me today to learn more about our services.
Here are some of the benefits of using MDR:

· 24/7 monitoring of your IT infrastructure and email tenant
· Detection and mitigation of threats quickly and effectively
· Reduced risk of data breaches
· Increased peace of mind

Having good backups in place and around the clock security experts, watching your network, will help you sleep better at night.

10/04/2022

This is what we are watching! Let us know if you need help protecting your company's systems.

What happens when a country attacks a company? In 2009, Google found out and cybersecurity was never the same again.An inside look at the historic attack whe...