Our office at 2204 W. Stadium Blvd is temporarily closed while the power is out.  All of our other locations are open and ready for you.  We will remove this message when the power is restored.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: As of 5:15p the power had not been restored so the office and ATM remain closed. However, we expect to reopen at 9a Tuesday as usual.

Bank of Ann Arbor recently moved our ATM that was located on the North University side of the former Michigan Book and Supply store in downtown Ann Arbor.  The ATM is now located at 520 E. Liberty, near the corner of Liberty and Maynard.  It is still accessible 24/7.  It's one of 10 ATM locations around the area.

Washtenaw County Public Health Department recognized Bank of Ann Arbor as a 2013 Healthy Workplace during National Public Health Week, April 1-7.  Bank of Ann Arbor has a strong employee culture of wellness and health supported by our wellness program managed by M-Healthy.

A2 Journal featured the award winners in this story, Businesses win healthy workplace recognition.

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The Bank of Ann Arbor team is congratulating the University of Michigan's Men's Basketball team on their trip to the NCAA Final Four this weekend by turning our green billboards maize.  New headlines in support of the team and their hard work appeared around Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, M14 and Dexter's Baker Road on Wednesday, April 3.   The boards have already caught the attention of AnnArbor.com who included a mention in an article about the excitement around town from local businesses.

#GoBlue!

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Bank of Ann Arbor is pleased to announce the hiring of two seasoned bankers, Deborah Jones and Robert Rose.

Deborah Jones, Vice President and Business Development Officer, who will be working with clients who hold 403(b) retirement investments through TIAA-CREF and Fidelity.

Rob Rose, Vice President and Senior Loan Officer, helps commercial clients out of our Plymouth office.

Please join us in welcoming them to the Bank of Ann Arbor team.

Your C-Level execs are your biggest social engineering threat. Why? 

1) They Expect You to Have Their Back 

These are the people that approve the security budget and they know how much the organization spends on IT security. So when they open an infected attachment that hoses their machine, they ask: "Why didn't you prevent this?" instead of asking themselves what they themselves did wrong. 

2) They Live On The Bleeding Edge 

C-level execs are the heavy hitters, with the busiest schedules and often a daunting workload. No wonder that they are the first ones that insist on new technology that will save them time or make their lives a bit more easy. So these are the people that you see with iPads on the company network, and they expect since this is new technology, it's of course more secure than the 'old stuff'. Unfortunately we know better, as new stuff is buggy and barely out of beta. New stuff can usually be hacked easier and faster. 

3) They Think Security Policy Is Not For Them 

Your C-level people are the best targets for attackers as they usually have the most access to corporate jewels. Since their jobs actually are very demanding, they naturally expect that 'restricting' security rules do not apply to them. They expect to be able to visit the websites that are otherwise blocked by rules in the proxy server, and so on, and on. Problem is of course that their security awareness is no higher than the other employees but C-level folks should be the very best security trained! 

4) Their Family Has A Target On Their Back Too 

Social engineers are 'business people'. Their time is money too, so they go after the low hanging fruit. In many cases that means using social media to infect the PC of the spouse of your C-level at their home, 'own' that low-security peer-to-peer network, which the Exec uses to log on with their company laptop and bingo! Your C-level exec's family needs some security awareness training too. 

Bank of Ann Arbor is pleased to be a collection location as part of the Ann Arbor Rotary Club's annual Rotate Your Food drive, March 12-23.  Donations of non-perishable food items may be dropped off at Bank of Ann Arbor offices in Ann Arbor, Saline and Ypsilanti.  Food donations will be used by Food Gatherers to provide for the needs of our community.  Help out today, if you can.

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This week, it's IT administrators that are specifically targeted with a phishing attack. The bad guys know very well that the most powerful weapons are administrator's credentials, as those really are the keys to the kingdom. So, what they are using is the instantly famous report that Mandiant wrote about the Chinese military hacking into 141 mostly U.S. businesses. An infected PDF version of the original report, titled "APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units, is now being used as spear phishing bait to get IT people to open it up using two fake names: Mandiant.pdf and Mandiant_APT2_Report.pdf The infected document leverages a just-patched hole in Adobe Reader and was first spotted in Asia. Keep your eyes peeled for it hitting your own inbox. In the meantime, the actual report is fascinating reading, and you can find it here at the Mandiant website: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/.

Source: Cyberheist News,  www.knowbe4.com

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Wednesday, February 27: It may be a snow day for the kids but all Bank of Ann Arbor offices are open as usual. Stop by any one of our seven locations for a friendly smile and a warm handshake.