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The Dark Web – Illicit Shopping Mall of Badness
The dark web brings to mind images of malicious agents sneaking around online in search of illegal drugs, personal information, and the newest ransomware software - and those images are all, unfortunately, correct. It's a scary place where all manner of things can be...
Verizon: Ransomware Increased 13% in 2021
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 ransomware from the data...
The True Cost of Ransomware is More Than the Ransom
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...
Protect Yourself from Email Fraud
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 FBI...
Is Your Password As Strong As You Think It Is?
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 clients, my friends, random people...
Decoding Disaster Recovery and 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 Disaster...
Here Phishy Phishy.
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. Here's what I...
A False Sense of 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 handle what gets thrown at them. Even...
Cyber Security – Today’s Reality
Across the world, hackers are targeting and exploiting security weaknesses and holding data hostage. In May of 2021, The Colonial Pipeline Company was hit by a ransomware cyberattack that caused the disruption of fuel supplies along the East Coast for several days....