Blog Posts for Security

The importance of cyber risks cannot be overstated in this digital age. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has highlighted the theme “Secure Our World,” emphasizing simple yet crucial steps to enhance online safety for individuals and organizations alike.

In a work setting, everyone within your organization needs to be proactive and scrutinize their personal security practices. This ensures they align with your organization’s protocols to help prevent a major data leak, or worse (think: ransomware attack). More and more business operations are moving to digital technology, and as you transform your own operations, it’s essential to make sure they’re secure from bad actors. Fact is, there’s a new scam every day. Educate everyone so that your users – and your organization – don’t become victims.

Every year our security experts see a huge uptick in fraud and other cybercrimes around the holidays. The story of holiday scams is now a familiar one. We have all seen phishing scam emails that pretend to be legit online sellers trying to get you to click something you shouldn’t or enter your personal information where you shouldn’t.

There is no shortage of creative ways for cybercriminals to harm individuals and organizations, especially in today’s remote and hybrid work environments. A holiday phishing scam that one employee falls for can have a significant impact across your entire company, particularly if the malware is executed and spreads. Hackers can then exploit security vulnerabilities, causing financial turmoil, data theft, and business disruption across the network. (more…)

Ransomware has quickly become the cybercriminal’s favorite form of malware. As a reminder, ransomware is malware that hackers use to enter a network or device, encrypts files, hold them hostage, and then demand a ransom to return those files back to the victims. In recent years, universities, municipal governments, small businesses, and even large corporations like Honda have been victims of ransomware. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the perfect environment of uncertainty and disruption for ransomware to thrive. (more…)

The massive shift towards a work-from-home model in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic brings up the critical concern of home network security. A simple home network lacks the sophisticated security protocols that would be present within organizational networks and opens more endpoints for cybercriminals to exploit as your employees work from home.

Here are some security tips to consider that can help strengthen your organization’s security posture in this new normal of remote work. (more…)

With the transition to remote work in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations and schools are transitioning to using Zoom for online collaboration and learning. This has seen the online conferencing service get hit with multiple cyberattacks, and there are now over 500,000 leaked Zoom accounts available for sale on the dark web. (more…)

Why is Private Information so Hard to Protect?

The news is chock-full of terrifying tales of data leaks, identity fraud, ransomware attacks, and malicious exploits that ooze up from the depths of the deep dark web. By now the world, for the most part, understands that the internet can be a dangerous place, which raises one very important question: why is it so difficult to protect our sensitive and private information? (more…)

Ransomware, the super pesky and problematic plague of the internet, continued its destructive and time-sucking path of thievery in 2018. As a form of malware that locks up and encrypts a user’s files and demands bitcoin for their safe return, ransomware can significantly impact your wallet and your productivity. (more…)