Cybersecurity
Top 5 Security Cyber Security Threats to Your Small Business
I hate to say it, but the bad guys are getting really good at taking advantage of businesses, and they’re making a mind-boggling amount of money off it. So, it’s not going to slow down, it’s just going to escalate. I want to let you know what the biggest cyber threats are, according to Webroot’s…
Read MoreNo Personal Email Accounts for Company Business!
The Yahoo! Data Breach of 2013 may seem like old news, but 2017 revealed it was far worse than reported. After Verizon acquired Yahoo! in June 2017, they discovered the 2013 breach affected every Yahoo! customer account – three billion in total! That mind-boggling number is three times more than Yahoo! reports when they first…
Read MorePassword Protect Customer Data!
The Republican National Committee hired Deep Root Analytics in 2017 to gather political information on US voters but didn’t secure the data. They had personal information on about 61% of the US population stored on an Amazon cloud server – with no password protection. It was exposed there, open for anyone to access, for about…
Read MoreNo Personal Email Accounts for Company Business!
The Yahoo! Data Breach of 2013 may seem like old news, but 2017 revealed it was far worse than reported. After Verizon acquired Yahoo! in June 2017, they discovered the 2013 breach affected every Yahoo! customer account – three billion in total! That mind-boggling number is three times more than Yahoo! reports when they first…
Read MoreKeep Your Systems Updated and Patched
What some have called “the worse ransomware attack ever” struck in May 2017, infecting an estimated 300,000 computer systems in just four days. WannaCry was similar to many ransomware attacks, i.e. it encrypted files and demanded a Bitcoin payment to decrypt them. However, it differed in one major way: worm tactics. Once WannaCry infected a machine,…
Read MoreNever Hide a Data Security Breach from Your Customers
Uber’s CEO revealed on Nov. 21, 2017, that the ride-hailing service failed to disclose a massive data breach last year. In Oct. 2016, hackers accessed a server containing personal information for more than 57 million Uber drivers and riders. They demanded a $100,000 ransom to delete their copy of the data, which Uber paid. The attackers…
Read MoreNever Overlook Data Security Vulnerabilities!
Credit reporting agency Equifax stores financial data on more than 800 million consumers and 88 million businesses worldwide, so data security is absolutely critical. On July 29, 2017, the company detected and blocked suspicious network activity associated with a web portal used by U.S. consumers to file disputes. Later analysis revealed the portal’s application framework, Apache…
Read MoreYour Next Network Attack Could Be an Inside Job
Most small businesses are vulnerable to security breaches because they’re an easy target – they don’t have adequate protections in place. And many who do take proper security measures assume that threats to their network are going to be from some unknown evil hacke Sadly, many successful attacks on computer networks were done by insiders…
Read MoreIs Your Small Business Vulnerable to Cyber Crime?
YES. In fact, your small business may be targeted specifically because it is small. Cybercrime targeting small businesses is on the rise. You may not suspect that your business is a target for cybercrime. It is. Hackers are not picky from who they steal from and your business is no exception. The most common method…
Read MoreMost Phishing Emails are Pretending to be from Your Own IT Department
As you probably know, phishing is an evil attempt to gain access to your private information – or to destroy your computer network – by sending an email that appears to be from a legitimate source. Often, these appear to be from a business with whom you already have an account, such as a credit card…
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