How to Prevent a Data Breach: Essential Tips for Businesses

Learn how to prevent a data breach with essential tips for businesses. Technijian offers strategies to safeguard your data and protect against cyber threats.

Cybersecurity 2025: 7 Attacks Targeting Small Businesses (and How to Stop Them)

Cybersecurity 2025: 7 Attacks Targeting Small Businesses (and How to Stop Them)

Small businesses face escalating cyber threats in 2025, with attackers specifically targeting companies with limited security infrastructure. From sophisticated phishing campaigns to ransomware attacks, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in outdated systems and untrained staff. This comprehensive guide examines seven critical attack vectors threatening small businesses today and provides actionable strategies to defend against them. Implementing managed cybersecurity services has become essential for protecting sensitive data, maintaining customer trust, and ensuring business continuity in an increasingly dangerous digital landscape. ... Read More
Historic Great Firewall Breach – 500GB+ Censorship Data Exposed

Historic Great Firewall Breach – 500GB+ Censorship Data Exposed

Historic Great Firewall Breach, a massive data leak of over 500 gigabytes that exposed the internal technical infrastructure and operational details of China's extensive internet censorship and surveillance system. The text explains that this breach provides an unprecedented opportunity for technicians and security researchers to understand how technologies like Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and VPN detection operate, ultimately aiding in the development of anti-censorship and digital freedom tools. Furthermore, the article highlights the global ramifications of the leak, noting that China's censorship model is being exported as "Censorship-as-a-Service" to other authoritarian regimes. Finally, the text promotes Technijian, a cybersecurity and IT services provider, as an essential partner in helping organizations conduct forensic analysis and implement robust security measures informed by the lessons of the breach. ... Read More
Malicious Postmark MCP Package Attack

The Silent Email Theft: How a Malicious Postmark MCP Package Compromised Thousands of Users

A sophisticated supply chain attack involving a malicious package on the npm registry, which mimicked the legitimate Postmark MCP server to silently steal user email communications for about a week. The initial text explains how the package established trust through numerous clean versions before introducing a single line of code in version 1.0.16 to exfiltrate sensitive data, including authentication credentials and financial communications. Furthermore, the documents outline the scope of the data compromise, potential warning signs developers should have noticed, and comprehensive prevention strategies like rigorous code review and dependency monitoring. Finally, the text introduces Technijian, a managed IT services provider, which uses this incident as a case study to market its security auditing and incident response services to businesses across Southern California. ... Read More
CrowdStrike vs. Microsoft Defender

CrowdStrike vs. Microsoft Defender vs. ThreatDown: What SMBs Actually Need (2025 Decision Matrix)

An in-depth comparison of three leading endpoint security solutions—CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Business, and Malwarebytes ThreatDown—designed to help Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) choose the best protection against modern cyber threats in 2025. It examines key features, pricing structures, and ideal use cases for each platform, concluding with a decision matrix comparing security effectiveness, management overhead, and total cost of ownership. The appended source introduces Technijian, an Irvine-based Managed IT Services provider that offers professional assessment, implementation, and ongoing management services to help SMBs navigate complex security decisions like the comparison outlined in the first text. Together, the sources provide both a technical analysis of necessary cybersecurity products and a practical resource for professional implementation and management support. ... Read More