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Teqworks at St. Charles Scarecrow Festival

We're born and raised in St. Charles, so how could we not show off our creativity at the annual St. Charles Scarecrow Festival in Lincoln Park?  We couldn't pass this up, so come out and see what we have built.  We can't wait to see you! Come visit TeqMan at...

Happy 4th of July from Teqworks!

Summer is finally here in St Charles, and I think we all deserve a nice holiday weekend in the sun. Make sure to catch the fireworks on Monday July 4th at sundown! “Launching from Boy Scout Island, the best viewing locations include Pottawatomie Park, Pottawatomie Golf Course and Ferson Creek...

Top Tips to Detect Phishing Scams

Sending emails plays a key role in a company’s business operations, with 86% of professionals preferring email as their primary means of business communication. Because they're so heavily relied upon, email accounts are common targets for cybercriminals. Using a method called phishing, these attacks are disguised as run-of-the-mill, regular emails,...

Part IV: Next Generation Threats

Next Generation threats, by comparison, do not use conventional methods to reach your electronic assets.  They can disguise themselves as trusted traffic.  They can use legitimate programs – like Outlook or Adobe Acrobat – to run rules to manipulate data on the computer or server.  Next Generation threats can use...

Part III: Conventional Threats

This is part III of our cyber security blog series. Here we cover what is considered a Conventional Threat. For decades, we've all become familiar with the ways we protect from viruses, spam, adware, trojans, and other malware we refer to as conventional threats.  Comparative to new threats like phishing...

Part II: Scary Stats & Stories

Cybercrimes pose the greatest threat to companies around the world. Dark web cybercriminals target companies of all sizes in all industries at any given moment. Without warning, your data can be compromised and held hostage by despicable thieves. And it happens more than you may know.  In Part II of...

Part I: The Teqworks Way

Most small businesses – 60%, reportedly – will not survive the year after experiencing a data breach, usually closing doors within 6 months.​ Every day, the IT environments of countless businesses and corporations around the world are under attack. Whether they know it or not, sinister entities are plotting heinous...

Teqworks Statement on Sunburst, SolarWinds, and FireEye Security Issue

On December 13, 2020, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted the general public of a known active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion and FireEye, software that is frequently used to support and monitor computer systems and networks.  This exploitation is currently referred to as Sunburst. Teqworks does not use...