Phishing sites over 2019—a 640% rise, to be exact. This reflects a year-over-year rise in active phishing sites, but it’s important to keep this (dangerous) threat in context. “Of all websites that host malicious content, phishing historically has been a minority,” says Webroot Security Analyst Tyler Moffitt. “While it’s growing quite a bit and a…
Zoom Targeted by Hackers
Zoom Video Software Targeted by Hackers With much of the professional world now telecommuting, hackers have taken notice and are finding vulnerabilities within Zoom’s software to hijack online meetings. Over 400 new domains have been registered through Zoom in just the last month, of which many have been found to contain suspicious content or activity. Other…
Is Your Business Prepared for a Security Breach?
A data breach can devastate your business and have real financial and reputational impact. Unfortunately, every organization will experience some type of security event. This could be from an outside attack or from the internal mishandling of sensitive data. Research suggests that the average cost of a data breach is upwards of $3.8M after remediation efforts, fines,…
Why you should think twice before paying a ransomware demand
Cyber criminals operate outside of the law. There is no guarantee that if you pay the ransom, you will actually receive the promised decryption tool. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the decryptor tool will work. According to a report by the CyberEdge Group, 38.9% of businesses affected by ransomware paid the ransom but lost their…
Why Your Passwords Aren’t Strong Enough
Do you use the same passwords for everything? Or do you have a couple that you interchange? If the answer is yes, you’re not alone. Most people aren’t aware of how important it is to protect yourself against cyber-attacks. Over the last couple of years, there has been a huge rise in cybercrime, and it’s…
What Is Endpoint Protection, Why Do You Need It?
Today’s enterprises must keep pace with technology to protect their assets—especially any confidential data—from cyber threats. But this is becoming increasingly difficult due to the number of devices that connect to an organization’s network. This raises notable concerns over endpoint protection. Endpoint protection—also known as endpoint security—refers to the security measures taken to address threats…
Protecting Your Business With Cyber Essentials
Without the amazing benefits and capabilities provided by IT, modern business would look very different. Accordingly, the need to protect your organisation’s IT equipment such as networks, data storage systems and workstations should be a major priority. You only have to take a quick look at the technology headlines to see that hacking makes for…
5 Places where hackers are stealing your data
Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs. Here we examine the top five places in 2019 where cybercriminals are stealing corporate and government data without ever getting noticed and then learn how to avoid falling victim to unscrupulous attackers. 1. Misconfigured Cloud Storage 48% of all corporate…
RobbinHood Ransomware : Back Up Your System
The creators of the dreaded ‘Robbinhood’ ransomware strain are putting their reputation to work for them. The hackers have recently modified their ransom note in a couple of important ways. First and foremost, they stress that there’s no public decryption tool currently available to recover files encrypted by RobbinHood and that they are monitoring the…
What Goes on In the Dark Web?
The World Wide Web has always been a valuable source of information and a reliable means of communication to masses of users across the globe. With more than 5 billion Google searches made every day and a projected $3.5 trillion online retail sales for 2019, you’d think that the internet as we know it is…
