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Kaspersky ThreatPost- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 2022
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger August 30, 2022
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms August 29, 2022
- Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise August 26, 2022
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras August 25, 2022
- Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version August 24, 2022
- Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA Warning August 23, 2022
- Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers August 22, 2022
- iPhone Users Urged to Update to Patch 2 Zero-Days August 19, 2022
- Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the Year August 18, 2022
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Law, Accounting and Consulting Firms Beware… COVID-19 Themed Attacks WILL Affect You As Well!!
As organizations around the world quickly (and maybe haphazardly) retool their infrastructures to allow their employees to work from home (WFH) during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hackers and bad actors have been relentless with their attacks on not only the … Continue reading
Under the Cover of COVID-19, Hackers are Stepping Up Their Criminal Activities in a Big Way and Exposing Security Cracks in Legacy VPNs
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started taking a firm grasp over the world it has forced companies to accelerate their efforts for enabling their employees to work from home (WFH). As a result, cybercriminals have taken advantage; exploiting the emerging opportunities … Continue reading
Dispelling the Major Fallacy Surrounding WFH Security During This COVID-19 Pandemic
WFH has now become the new norm across the globe as nations shut down borders, governments impose travel bans and group gathering restrictions, and organizations ask their employees to stay at home. As we’ve written in earlier blogs, the impact … Continue reading
COVID-19 is Resulting in Greatly Increased WFH Situations. AND It’s Also Causing a Surge in COVID Themed Cyberattacks!
The world is in full blown pandemic mode as a result of the COVID-19 virus. We hear on a daily basis that more countries are closing their borders to foreign travellers and, on a more local level, provincial and civic … Continue reading
COVID-19 Has Employees Working From Home: Is Your Organization’s Remote Access Secure?
COVID-19’s effect on the global business community has now become far reaching. WFH (Work From Home) is now a typical part of the lexicon as organizations around the world try to stem the spread of the virus amongst their workforce. … Continue reading
Continuing with the Healthcare Industry, Here are Some of the Numbers…
As we covered Healthcare a fair bit last week, I just wanted to pass along some of the recent numbers that reflect the dire situation that the industry continues to find itself in. Forbes published and article a couple of days … Continue reading
Healthcare Industry Still Under Siege: Why They’re So Bad at Cybersecurity and Why Backups are No Longer a Solution Against Ransomware
Over the weekend there were a couple of articles that popped out at me, mainly because it’s in an industry that we’ve been making strides to protect with our WedgeARP platform and our WedgeAMB product. This industry is of course, … Continue reading
Haven’t Received Your Packages as of Late? Blame Ransomware!
An interesting article came across my desk yesterday, posted by Zdnet, which centred around how deliveries across Australia have been delayed recently. Now many would figure that it was weather related or something similar as we have seen the news articles of … Continue reading
The Endpoint Protection Numbers Are In And It’s Not Looking Pretty – Endpoint Attacks Are Still An Ongoing Issue
Help Net Security published an article at the end of January that highlighted several Ponemon Institute findings and the fact that “Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats…” According to a Ponemon … Continue reading
Snake Ransomware Now Causing Havoc on Industrial Control Systems – Are Your Systems at Risk?
This is a follow-up blog to the one we provided earlier this month on how the Snake Ransomware was affecting Corporate Networks. Yesterday, Bloomberg again brought to light the recent “Snake” ransomware and how it is now used to target Industrial Control … Continue reading
