How would you feel if, in order to gain access to a known terrorist’s house, the government passed a law that required every lock manufacturer to create a master key that would unlock every locked door anywhere? What if the police promised that they would only use the key on the one house? What if they promised to keep the key safe and secure so it could never get into the hands ...
A great product for quickly and easily adding web site filtering to your organization is OpenDNS Umbrella. OpenDNS was recently purchased by Cisco Systems. OpenDNS is another featured security product that is part of the Managed Services program here at CIT.
The way OpenDNS works is that all of your traffic to and from the Internet is run through the proxy server cloud at OpenDNS. In addition to protecting your ...
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Try to imagine how much bad stuff we could keep off our computers and networks if we could figure out a way to filter incoming traffic from the Dark Web. Well maybe we can.
First, my apology in advance to my non-technical followers, this article may be a bit high level for the average user.
A post in Spiceworks from “Born2Frag” ...
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This should really be called “anti-social” engineering. A good definition is “social engineering is a non-technical method of intrusion hackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. It is one of the greatest threats that organizations today encounter.”
My article on Wednesday will give an example of phone based social engineering – the fake tech support ...
Continue Reading →We were recently featured in the January edition of New Business Minnesota. This is a monthly business magazine published by Pat Boulay. You can download a copy of our featured article, Cyber-criminals Put Every Business At Risk, here. There are some additional helpful links below the picture.
Pat also runs a great business networking meeting once a month as well, ...
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This is hot off the press. Yesterday Malwarebytes announced a beta of a new anti-crypto software product designed to stop CryptoWall4, CryptoLocker, Tesla, and CTB-Locker. You can download the beta here.
According to Malwarebytes:
Continue Reading →“Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has ...
A virtual private network, or VPN, is a type of network computer connection that creates a private encrypted communications channel, commonly called a “tunnel,” when using insecure networks, such as in hotels and coffee shops, or when communicating over the Internet. Many businesses provide a VPN connection for their mobile and traveling employees. This means that when out of the office, a worker can open the VPN and be connected to ...
Quick answer: Yes it can! A recent article in Bloomberg goes deeply into this subject, and reveals the experiences of a white hat hacker named Billy Rios. Billy and many others in the profession had been hired by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota in 2013 to try to hack all the medical devices in the hospital that were connected to the network. ...
Passwords – Is mine strong enough? How do I know? Every time I write a password article I feel as if this subject has already been done to death by me and others. But I always get more positive feedback on this subject than others I consider more interesting, so we offer the following suggestions:
As we approach the new year it is traditional to make our New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, most resolutions are made but not kept, so I am a little reluctant to offer these ideas for improving your cybersecurity in the coming year. But if you have not climbed on the cybersecurity bandwagon yet, you are definitely overdue. Pick a few of these ideas to implement in your business.
Here they are: