by Scott Muniz | Mar 10, 2022 | Security
This article was originally posted by the FTC. See the original article here.
Every year millions of people report fraud, scams, and bad business practices to the FTC. Your stories help us better understand how fraud affects every community. During National Consumer Protection Week, we’re offering information and advice for some of these communities, and today we’re focusing on scams that have an impact on older adults.
- Scammers are using social media for investment, romance, and online shopping scams. More than one in four people who reported losing money to fraud from 2020 – 2021 said it started on social media with an ad, a post, or a message. The most money was lost to investment and romance scams.
- Imposters posing as Amazon workers tricked people with messages about suspicious activity or unauthorized purchases on their accounts. Among people age 60 and over who reported the calls in 2020-2021, the median reported loss was $1,500, compared to $814 for people under age 60.
If you spot one of these — or another — scam, please tell us at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. It’s easy to report and the information you give helps protect your community. Want more consumer protection news? Read common scams and sign up for email updates.
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by Contributed | Mar 10, 2022 | Technology
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On March 4th, we held our second internal hackathon this year during our dedicated Learning Friday, 1st Friday of each Month. This time is set aside by leadership to assure everyone has the time the need to continue their learning path.
For the last two Learning Fridays, we have held one day hackathons to bring our Modern Work teams together to learn together, ideate on potential customer solutions and to get hands-on experience with Teams Platform development and the low code Power Platform including Power Apps, Power Apps Portal, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI and Dataverse.
If you are considering running a hackathon within your organization, check out the Hackathon Starter Kit that we have been working on to help get you started. You can also reach out to your Microsoft contact for guidance on running your own internal hackathon on Microsoft Teams.
Twelve teams were created with up to four members and a coach. Each team presented their solution during the sharing session. You can find their solutions below along with a short video.
Team 1
A Clinician Community Portal in Teams targeted to help nurses reduce burn out by helping prioritize activity (model driven Power Apps), manage/control shift requests (Shifts in Teams), and provide daily motivation (Bulletins Power Apps in Teams).
Team 2
A “Virtual Nurse” canvas app for junior nurses to instantly connect with experienced/senior nurses when they need quick help. The junior nurse can check availability based on area/specialty. The dream would be to create a 1:1 Teams chat/video call between junior nurse and available senior nurse.
Team 3
A model-driven Power App for continuing education & skills development for Nurses, aka LadderUP. The app helps drive professional development & growth for nurses while also helping to increase a health care organization’s Magnet Award standing.
Team 4
A clinician camera recording solution for Proficiency Demonstration requirements. Clinicians start by reviewing a PDF/PowerPoint, have an option to connect with a mentor (using Bookings) and finally use the Power App camera record feature to record themselves executing a specific roll task.
Team 5
A “Support U” Teams app to centralize messages, news, community outreach, philanthropy opportunities and a sign-up for volunteering in support of the war in Ukraine.
Team 6
Daily-affirmation app was created using Power Apps pinned in Microsoft Teams to help provide motivational and spiritual wellbeing for users. It would provide a mental health check-in with optional callback, Daily prayers with optional rosary content, Inspirational quotes, and a healthy goal.
Team 7
Reducing barriers to virtual (video) visits and improving the accessibility experience for elderly patients and those with sensory limitations with the implementation of a Power Virtual Agent: Virtual Visit Health Bot. Inability to navigate the technology set-up before and during the virtual visit is a major cause of dissatisfaction among patients, and resulting no-shows are a significant revenue bleed for Providers.
Team 8
Daily Well-being Mental Health Check-in using Power Apps mobile application, Power Automate, SharePoint Online, Viva Connections and Teams. Check in on employee moods and challenges in less than 30 seconds.
Team 9
Photo badge overlay to customize your profile photo from a library of overlay frames including Specialty, Certifications, Holidays, Events to increase employee morale built with Power Apps.
Team 10
Addressing Burnout in Healthcare by increasing visibility of tasks, flexible task re-assignment, automation of approvals via chat, scheduling and content and coping tools using Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Microsoft Teams and adaptive cards.
Team 11
Back in the Office! Avoid commuter remorse by creating awareness of who is working in the office to maximize personal social engagement. Solution is built using SharePoint for data storage with a Microsoft Teams embedded Power Apps.
Team 12
Application to help Pharma and Life Science customers recruit quality clinical trial patients. The app helps find a diverse set of patients for better research data, serve rural areas where patients may not see practitioners often, and streamlines how customers can review the patient volunteer for trial participation. Ability for an individual to self-register by answering pre-screening questions and to automate the process for Trial Managers to identify valid volunteer candidates. Solution built with Power Apps Portals, Dynamics and Dataverse.
by Contributed | Mar 10, 2022 | Business, Gartner, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva, Partner, Technology
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Microsoft 365 is trusted to keep our customers’ data secure and provide innovative solutions that solve their biggest challenges. We’re excited to share that for the fifth consecutive year, Gartner® has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in its 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Content Services Platforms.
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by Contributed | Mar 9, 2022 | Technology
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Recently I had a case were several servers had the dlls loaded in IIS that resembled names that sounded like IIS modules but were proven to be nonstandard modules. cachcookie.dll and anon_auth.dll were detected by the customer as malicious and thus removed by their antivirus software.
The problem is if they are deleted without removing the references in IIS when it tries to start the W3WP.exe, it will fail because module not found.
Here is an example of how to then remove the module reference using PowerShell.
Remove-WebConfigurationProperty -pspath ‘MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST’ -filter “system.webServer/globalModules” -name “.” -AtElement @{name=’CookieCacheModule’}
Remove-WebConfigurationProperty -pspath ‘MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST’ -filter “system.webServer/modules” -name “.” -AtElement @{name=’CookieCacheModule’}
With these two along with stopping/starting IIS and checking of the presence of the file we were able to streamline the process of fixing the issue.
Within the example you may change the “name=’CookieCacheModule'” to match the module you are targeting for removal.
Once removed the W3WP.EXE was started and begin to process requests as expected.
by Scott Muniz | Mar 9, 2022 | Security, Technology
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CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the United States Secret Service (USSS) have re-released an advisory on Conti ransomware. Conti cyber threat actors remain active and reported Conti ransomware attacks against U.S. and international organizations have risen to more than 1,000.
CISA, the FBI, NSA, and the USSS encourage organizations to review AA21-265A: Conti Ransomware, which includes new indicators of compromise, for more information. See Shields Up and StopRansomware.gov for ways to respond against disruptive cyber activity.
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