Ransomware attacks are spreading and ransom demands are growing. 22 cities across Texas were recently held hostage for millions after their networks were infiltrated and data was encrypted, and that’s just the latest in a string of cities and businesses being...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been very proactive in going after business that do not protect their clients from cyber breaches. This is not only happening with major companies; Foresite was called in to help a small business who was audited and fined more...
Credential stuffing has been in the news because it is a method of attempting to take over accounts of a company by using the databases of known breaches to ‘stuff’ thousands or millions of known credentials into an automated bot and attempting to see if they can get...
Incident response as a term is reactive, so it’s no wonder that a proactive approach to incident response is a foreign concept to many clients and resellers that we work with. Let’s look at a few common scenarios to understand why proactive incident...
Ah the rise of the cybersecurity industry. So many tools, so many ‘silver bullets’. Don’t get me wrong this is not necessarily a bad thing. There are gaps and problems and tools are built to solve these problems and address these gaps. The issue is when a security...
WannaCry malware hit the news in 2017 when reports of the damaging attack spread through more than 150 countries. The National Health Service in the UK, and FedEx where two of the worst hit organizations, but countless others, including small business, schools, and...
