GiaSpace: IT Support & Cybersecurity for Florida Businesses https://www.giaspace.com Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:58:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.giaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20-year-anniversary-logo-150x150.png GiaSpace: IT Support & Cybersecurity for Florida Businesses https://www.giaspace.com 32 32 Yayati Chothe Celebrates Eight Years at GiaSpace as Senior Administrator https://www.giaspace.com/blog/yayati-chothe-celebrates-eight-years-at-giaspace-as-senior-administrator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yayati-chothe-celebrates-eight-years-at-giaspace-as-senior-administrator Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:58:30 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36594 Senior Administrator Yayati Chothe celebrates eight years at GiaSpace today. We asked him three questions. Eight years is a long time in IT. Entire platforms have come and gone since October 2018, and so have a few of the “unbreakable” systems our clients relied on back then. Yayati Chothe has been here for all of......

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]]> ClickFix Scam Inside ChatGPT: Why Users Are Pasting Malware https://www.giaspace.com/blog/clickfix-scam-inside-chatgpt-why-users-are-pasting-malware/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clickfix-scam-inside-chatgpt-why-users-are-pasting-malware Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:36:04 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36568 IT Myths Debunked, Part 2. The scariest phishing message of the year did not come by email. It showed up inside a chat window the user already trusted…and asked for help. ESET’s latest threat report counted a 108% jump in ClickFix detections between the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, and......

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]]> The Backup That Wasn’t There: Baltimore’s $18M Ransomware Lesson https://www.giaspace.com/cybersecurity/the-backup-that-wasnt-there-how-baltimore-turned-a-76000-ransom-into-an-18-million-bill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-backup-that-wasnt-there-how-baltimore-turned-a-76000-ransom-into-an-18-million-bill Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:23:08 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36513 Cyber Horror Stories, Part 2. The ransom was $76,000. Saying no cost $18 million, and the attackers had nothing to do with the difference. Tuesday morning, May 7, 2019, Baltimore city employees log in and find every file locked behind a ransom note. The price to unlock one system is three bitcoin, and the price......

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]]> Your September 2026 Data Breach Roundup https://www.giaspace.com/blog/your-september-2026-data-breach-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-september-2026-data-breach-roundup Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:15:40 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36217 In September, a cybercrime group hacked the FBI and demanded an apology. An AI broke out of a test environment and into real companies. The Pentagon’s vendor got hit. A developer deleted a GitHub comment and somehow made things worse. It was that kind of month. Here is what happened and what it means for......

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]]> The MFA Myth: Not All Multifactor Authentication Stops Phishing https://www.giaspace.com/blog/the-mfa-myth-not-all-multifactor-authentication-stops-phishing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-mfa-myth-not-all-multifactor-authentication-stops-phishing Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:04:16 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36204 IT Myths Debunked, Part 1. Some myths haunt every security checklist. This one is still on yours, with a green checkmark next to it. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and multifactor authentication sits near the top of every checklist for good reason. Microsoft’s own numbers say phishing-resistant MFA stops more than 99% of identity attacks.......

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]]> Business Email Compromise: How One Email Cost $37 Million https://www.giaspace.com/blog/business-email-compromise-how-one-email-cost-37-million/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=business-email-compromise-how-one-email-cost-37-million Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:40 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36191 Welcome to Cyber Horror Stories, our new series (just in time for spooky season). Four true disasters, told campfire-style, each one ending with the fix that would have stopped it cold. First up: the email that looked exactly right. Picture this: it’s August 2019, inside the European finance office of Toyota Boshoku, one of Toyota’s......

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]]> Q4 IT Budget Checklist for Florida Businesses: Windows 10 Costs and Tax Deadlines https://www.giaspace.com/it-systems-support/q4-it-budget-checklist-for-florida-businesses-windows-10-costs-and-tax-deadlines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q4-it-budget-checklist-for-florida-businesses-windows-10-costs-and-tax-deadlines Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:53:08 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36188 Florida IT Files, Part 4. This year, Q4 budgeting comes with two deadlines that are not up for debate. Most Q4 IT planning is a formality: someone glances at last year’s number, adds ten percent, and moves on. This year is different. Windows 10’s Extended Security Updates jump from $61 to $122 per device the......

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]]> Ask a vCIO: “Do We Actually Need Cyber Insurance?” https://www.giaspace.com/blog/ask-a-vcio-do-we-actually-need-cyber-insurance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ask-a-vcio-do-we-actually-need-cyber-insurance Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:03:36 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=36003 Part 3 of Ask a vCIO, our series answering real questions clients bring to the table. This time: the question nobody wants to think about until it’s too late to ask. The first two questions in this series were about spending money proactively, but this one is about what happens if you don’t. “Do We......

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]]> IT Professionals Day: The Job in Three Words https://www.giaspace.com/it-systems-support/it-professionals-day-the-job-in-three-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-professionals-day-the-job-in-three-words Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:32:35 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=35924 Today is National IT Professionals Day, which lands on the third Tuesday of September every year. Last year we wrote about what great IT support looks like, but this year we decided to skip the speech and go straight to the source. We asked our team one question: describe your job in three words. Three......

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]]> New State, Old IT Setup: What Florida Businesses Get Wrong on Day One https://www.giaspace.com/blog/new-state-old-it-setup-what-florida-businesses-get-wrong-on-day-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-state-old-it-setup-what-florida-businesses-get-wrong-on-day-one Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:46:25 +0000 https://www.giaspace.com/?p=35893 Florida IT Files, Part 3. Florida led the nation in new business formation last year…but most of those businesses brought an IT plan built for somewhere else. Florida led the country in new business formation in 2025, about 698,000 businesses launched here, more than California, Texas, or any other state. A 2026 WalletHub study ranked......

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