Your network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome sysadmin (or maybe a whole IT department) keeping your business up and running. So say IT loud; say IT proud …
Wait… what exactly is SysAdmin Day? Oh, it’s only the single greatest 24 hours on the planet… and pretty much the most important holiday of the year. It’s also ...
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Since the Equifax breach, we have all become painfully aware that our personal credit information is in the wild. Identity theft is something that could happen to any of us. Even the FBI, in a recently released report, says, “Given the hacks we’ve seen in recent years, there are few people who haven’t had their identity stolen.”
There is little any of us can do about the information disclosures ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.07/19/2018 05:08 PM EDT Original release date: July 19, 2018
NCCIC will conduct a series of webinars on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure (as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A), which will ...
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What devices are targeted for crypto-jacking and how can you protect yourself and your business from the problems and losses associated with crypto-jacking? Yesterday we learned about crypto-currency, crypto-mining, and crypto-jacking. Today we will learn how to secure our computers, devices, and networks from this new exploit.
Target devices. Really, any device with a network connection and a CPU is vulnerable ...
Continue Reading →Tales from the Crypt was the name of a series of E.C. Comics in the 1950s. They were the inspiration for a TV show of the same name that ran for 7 seasons and 93 episodes on HBO from 1989 to 1996. In 2018, the new tales of the crypt involve weird sounding terms such as crypto-currency, crypto-mining, and crypto-jacking. ...
Just how secure are the servers, routers and other high end hardware that is running the global Internet? This is a question posed in a pair of recent articles from US-CERT, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
Because of the significant skills and capabilities of organized cyber-criminals, politically motivated hacker collectives, nation-state cyber armies and similar threat sources, operators of global network systems ...
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Two weeks ago we reported on the most common cyber-scams targeting individuals like you and me. But businesses are also in the cross-hairs of scammers. A recent effort by the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau has created some resources to help small business owners and managers learn how to protect themselves from these scams.
It is important ...
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Most of the small business clients I work with do not have a huge budget for a cybersecurity program, and something like a managed security service program (MSSP) is beyond their reach. They have money for a firewall, and endpoint security, but that is about it. Sound like your business? Then read on.
There are eight simple, free or low-cost things that small business IT professionals or IT support providers can ...
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In our last post we looked at common web and phone based scams that I have seen personally, or have been targeted at a client. Today we will examine other scams that are popular with cyber-criminals.
Some of these are targeted at specific industries or at people in positions of leadership or ownership of an organization or business.
I cannot believe the number of scam calls and emails I receive in a given day. Often I get 4 or 5 scams calls on my cell phone, and a few more on my landline. That landline has got to go, more than 90% of calls on that number are from scammers or telemarketers. Emails are even more ...