Report Fraud
ReportFraud.ftc.gov is an official website of the United States government where you can report to help fight fraud.
First you can report a scam, a company, or an unwanted call. After reporting, you will receive next steps to learn what you can do to protect yourself. The reports made will then be used and shared with law enforcement partners to help with investigations. By reporting fraud, scams, or bad business practices, you can help protect yourself and your community. While an individual report will not be resolved, over 2,800 law enforcers will use the reports to bring cases against various fraud incidents and scams. This will help them from happening to others in the future.
To learn more about how your information is collected and used, common FAQ’s about the reporting process, or to make your first report, visit here.
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Thousands of skills, all your data, and infinite possibilities for enterprise. Are you wondering if Microsoft Copilot is for you?
AI is everywhere. If you spend any time in the Microsoft ecosystem, you have likely stumbled across information about Copilot. The addition to your MS licensing, while pricey, can be a useful companion to the Microsoft suite when building agendas, summarizing email content, developing instructions, and parsing documentation for information.
The AI assistant can enhance productivity by allowing you to engage in meetings you attend and quickly catch up on the ones you miss, as well as help you catch up on email threads by summarizing the content and drafting suggested replies. Copilot can draft, edit, and summarize your writing in addition to providing prompts or outlines to start presentations. You can connect Copilot to your data and apps and customize the assistant to business processes and respond to specific questions with manually created topic flows. Copilot will allow you to work seamlessly and efficiently, boosting your creativity, all while inheriting the security, compliance, and privacy policies you’ve set up in Microsoft 365 in order to keep your data protected and secure.
To learn more about the features, functionality, and pricing of Copilot, visit here.
CDK Global Cyberattack
Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was recently hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems and leaving clients unable to operate business as normal.
The company provides clients in the auto industry a SaaS platform to handle all aspects of a car dealership’s operation from CRM, financing, and payroll to support and service, inventory, and back office operations. The company is used by over 15K car dealerships in North America and has thousands of employees across the country. In order to use the services, dealerships configure an always-on VPN to the data centers which allows their locally installed applications to access the platform.
The recent cyberattack caused CDK Global to shut down its IT systems, phones, and applications to prevent the spread of the attack. With the two data centers offline, there was widespread disruption among car dealerships using their platform. While CDK has not shared much, employees at dealerships say they’ve been sent an email warning about the incident, and the company is assessing the overall impact with no ETA. There is an additional rumor that the company suffered a ransomware attack impacting its backups, but this information has not been independently confirmed.
Visit here to learn more about the attack and its aftermath.
