Malware

Skepticism about COVID-19 communications exemplifies a hidden cost of the fight against phishing and vishing scams: lost time and business inefficiencies caused by paranoid employees.

Phishing is everywhere.  Couple that with a new remote workforce, video conferencing, and corporate messaging, now phishing and vishing are everywhere.  Why?  There are many reasons, including: Increased use of personal computers and phones to conduct our work remotely Increase in phishing emails targeting remote workers Increase in vishing calls to our personal phones targeting […]

Businesses should remind their employees to resist interacting with emails sent from unknown sources, especially when their subject lines and content promise inside information on current events.

Ransomware groups are doing all they can to leverage tools and techniques that hide their presence from threat detection engines, cover their tracks from investigators and generally make it harder for companies to spot or respond to intrusions until it’s too late.

In the world of cybersecurity, we talk about a lot of capabilities and tools.  But if we think about what the hackers want, it’s our data.  Why do we focus so much time and effort on the network and endpoint, but not the data? I get it, data security is hard (or at least it […]

On one hand, simulations should mimic real-life phishing campaigns as closely as possible. On the other hand, an insensitive training exercise can place your company in bad standing with employees.

For medical facilities, and any entity that delivers critical services, the situation places security teams on high alert: ensure adequate training for the workforce and some means of network redundancy or else risk similar tragedy or even potential liability.