Cybersecurity Tips: Big Mistakes Made By Small to Medium Size Business Owners

The past two years have handed small and medium-sized businesses a whole host of problems, such as supply chain issues, recruiting woes, and staff retention difficulties. Unfortunately, while dealing with these urgent challenges, the vast majority of those companies have been failing to prepare for a threat that’s been grabbing headlines with increasing frequency at […]

How will your company fare when it gets hacked? A penetration test will help you find your weaknesses then plan and strategize for what to do when you inevitably fall into the cyber-crosshairs of a cybercriminal? Don’t think it could happen to you? That’s what everyone else, big company or small business, thinks, too. Don’t […]

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Precursor warnings can only go so far when it comes to prevention of possible forthcoming attacks. While staying up to date on vendor advisories, intelligence sources, and security blogs are certainly important, it comes as too little too late for some victims. According to FireEye’s “M-Trends 2018” report, the global median dwell time between infiltration […]

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In the past six months, just under half, 48% to be exact, of all hospitals in the United States shut down their networks because of ransomware. The cost to large hospitals averaged $133,000. The cost to medium hospitals averaged $457,000. One of the larger issues highlighted in the study by Philips and CyberMDX was a […]

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Holidays mean downtime for a lot of people, including families and extended families. All that togetherness creates a fantastic opportunity to ring in the new year with tech savvy family technical support. Here’s seven ways to earn that family “Tech Guru” title. Update. Everything. Before you go hunting for elusive tech issues, check to ensure […]

Technology is in almost every single aspect of our daily life.  Things that were once big screen sci-fi are now an everyday reality.  So how do we know what the next new thing is on the horizon?  CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is a massive preview.  Happening this week in Las Vegas, CES has more than […]

Earlier this month Microsoft released a series of patches to rectify over seventy security issues in Windows and software that interacts with Windows, including critical updates for Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Office. At least twenty of the flaws are considered critical as Microsoft believes hackers could easily compromise systems. The number one priority patch […]

It’s been almost a year now, since the pandemic seemingly turned our worlds upside-down in what was seemingly an instant.  Many workers who had never worked remotely began doing so on a regular basis.  And while that was immensely helpful in curtailing the spread of the physical virus, e-viruses have flourished, as anyone with even […]

Researchers at Trustwave recently discovered a malicious spam campaign.  The email comes as an executable file via email with a tell-tale two sentence subject line that reads “Install Latest Microsoft Windows Update now! Critical Microsoft Windows Update!” There is only one sentence to the actual email itself. Disguised as a .jpg, the file really contains […]

Looters broke into a Durham health clinic sometime after the downtown gas explosion on April 10th that affected over 20 businesses, injured 25 people, and caused the death of two people. The subsequent theft of clinic property has prompted the clinic to notify patients that their information, including diagnoses and treatment information may have been […]

PureLocker, an unusual form of ransomware that attacks enterprise servers, has gone undetected for some time but has recently been revealed by cybersecurity analysts at Intezer and IBM X-Force.  What makes PureLocker so unique is that it’s written in PureBasic programming language.  Malicious software written in PureBasic is difficult for most security systems to detect.  […]