For the second time this year a massive ransomware attack is sweeping across the globe. At first the ransomware was believed to be a strain of Petya. However, reports now…
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As technology has become more reliable and advanced, cloud sharing has become an increasingly popular way to share information and store it. Cloud sharing is everywhere in personal lives as…
Since the beginning of 2016 there have been on average, up to 4,000 ransomware attacks daily. In the recent news, stories about hospitals and healthcare clinics falling to aggressive ransomware…
With the holiday season, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday right around the corner it’s easy to get caught up in all of the excitement. During the shopping season cybercrime tends…
A couple weeks ago, tens of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices started a brutal attack on Dyn, a company that manages website domains and routes internet traffic. Each of…
Business e-mail compromise scam is costing companies billions—and it’s easier than you think Companies are losing billions of dollars worldwide from a simple scam, and the FBI predicts the losses…
If your healthcare network was kidnapped, what would you pay to ransom it? It’s a question one California hospital network answered pretty quickly — $17,000. And it’s one that hospitals…
According to the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report of those who receive malicious emails, “23% of recipients now open phishing messages and 11% click on attachments.” For anyone who has…
The FBI calls successful phishing a Business Email Compromise (BEC) and has logged about 7,000 such events since 2013. The average loss was $130,000. With strengthened email security, an IT department can…
In today’s age of high-tech viruses and sophisticated malware, good old-fashioned social engineering attacks are still some of the most dangerous threats out there. Consider the case of Ubiquiti Networks, a…
