It seems we are seeing a new cyber event in the news every day. From local government agencies to major corporations, this is not slowing down. Below, you will see a list of the most significant data breaches in history. Please keep in mind, these companies have teams of security personnel and millions of dollars…
Archives for 2019
Ransomware costs up, causes 10-day downtime
As Ransomware continues to rise, new reports are showing an increase in the impact towards organizations. Here are a few that were covered: Cyber criminals are cashing in so we will continue to see an increase an phishing scams and attacks on Remote Desktops. We are only as strong as our weakest line, so what…
Florida city pays $600k to hackers
Another victim to the thousands of cyber attacks on local governments and city offices. This time the criminals were paid quite handsomely. Can your organization afford to spend $600k in ransom then another million to replace all hardware? How did the hackers get in? Someone clicked on a phishing email because they had no security…
Ransomware only attacking Small to Medium sized businesses.
ZDNet talks through the focus of most ransomware and the shift towards the SMB space. According to the latest report by Kaspersky, hackers using this ransomware target smaller companies as their are easier targets and the seizure of their data is more catastrophic. This makes them pay the ransom a lot faster. See if you’re…
Why are non-profits a target for hackers?
In a recent article , KIRO radio discuss the impact a food bank saw after their entire business was compromised. “What we’ve sort of learned through the process is if you try to pay a guy for your stuff back it’s still going to come to you damaged. It’s still going to be about 40…
FBI: Don’t Trust HTTPS or Padlock on Websites
Good read….”Thankfully, education is the single security measure against which criminals can’t work around: an aware user, who had been trained to look for misspellings in the URL of a webpage and knows not to trust a padlock icon, is much harder to lure into giving away personal information or clicking on malware-spreading links.” Interested…
WannaCry 2019: Ransomware still thriving
In a recent article by Healthcare IT, they discuss how having an up-to-date picture of all of the assets on a network allows a hospital to proceed accordingly. You need to be able to monitor incoming threats on a daily basis. If you don’t have this today, you should be! Click the link to get…
