by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
Sobering – and scary – to realize that the rise in ransomware attacks in 2021 is as big as the prior five years COMBINED. Wow. The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2008 – 2022 was finally released, and with it, we get a view of...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
Have you heard the joke about the cybercriminals who escaped the scene of the crime? They ransomware. It’s a topic that has dominated headlines with high-profile attacks demonstrating how cybercrime has evolved in recent years. Ransomware attacks encrypt the...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
Email fraud keeps getting worse. More prevalent, more insidious. More sneaky. The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) logged a whopping 241,206 complaints in the four-and-a-half-year period ending December 2021, with losses totaling $43 billion, according to a new...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
When I first saw this graphic, I thought to myself, “This will open some eyes,” and, simultaneously, “This might be the scariest news about passwords that I have ever seen.” True story. I’ve been recommending strong passwords to our...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Disaster-Proofing / Business Continuity
What’s the difference and why would you care? Face it—downtime is depressing, difficult and downright dumb. You can’t afford to lose business, customers, and your reputation because of failed computer systems. That’s why it’s so important to pay attention to...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
Despite major improvements in how organizations can block millions of cyber-attacks, email threats are able to break through defenses because hackers are continually morphing them to be more complex and sophisticated. Whoa. That sounds so… corporate....
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall” isn’t always true. The fact is that when a big corporation gets hit with a cybersecurity attack, they can typically withstand it. They’ve got the resources – financial and otherwise – to...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Managed IT Services
If you’re a business owner or operations manager, there’s probably a good chance you have spent time figuring out the IT needs of your business. It’s not as easy as searching online and picking the cheapest option or the company with the best reviews. The cheap option...
by Mike Mullin | Blog, Hacker-Proofing / Cybersecurity
I’m going to start by scaring you. If you have a company or organization with more than ten people in it, and you don’t have cyber insurance in this day and age, you need to make a phone call and get insured right now. It’s THAT important. And...
