Petronella Cybersecurity News

The biggest concern with the looming storm with regards to electrical equipment is flooding. The simplest way to protect your equipment is to ensure it is reasonably higher than possible flood levels and ensure it is turned OFF. We advise all of our customers to turn off all electronics when leaving the office for the […]

Your home internet connection could be leaving you vulnerable to an attack from criminals. The internet connection that goes into your house may be via a tiny wire —but it’s got big vulnerabilities which get larger all the time. And many of us don’t realize the router may be our weakest link. All of our devices – […]

Online hotel bookings happen every day.  More and more consumers are utilizing the web to reserve their hotel accommodations.   But what if you arrived, only to find you had no reservation despite the charge to your card? Travel fraud is on the rise, with recent estimates as high as 25% of consumers being scammed.  Cybercriminals […]

The largest ever recorded data breach class action lawsuit was settled against Anthem this week. California US District Judge Lucy Koh has approved a $115 million settlement. Anthem reached the deal June 23 without admitting any wrongdoing. The data breach affected 79 million Anthem members, exposing their social security numbers, names, date of birth, addresses […]

What does CCPA Compliance mean for your business? The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a consumer privacy law that establishes guidelines on collecting personal information and post-data-acquisition usage goes into effect January 1, 2020. The new law will apply to any business that operates in California and has annual gross revenues in excess […]

Everyone hears about big the big data breaches, the ones involving retail giants or healthcare companies. Not as many people pay attention to smaller data breaches, however, despite the fact that there are a lot of vulnerable small businesses out there. Take two recent cases. The first involved Unixiz, a small business that ran a […]

Cybersecurity experts have long warned of the dangers of hackers gaining access to the power grid. It turns out that Russian hackers have gained access to the control rooms of US power companies and that the attack is likely still ongoing, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The attack, by a state-sponsored hacker group […]

The most popular web browser is getting an update today, and it might scare visitors away from your website. Starting with today’s release of Chrome 68, Google’s web browser will mark websites as not secure if the site is not secured with an SSL certificate. What’s so great about an SSL certificate? If your site […]

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” That could be the motto of a Virginia bank that was hacked two times in less than a year, costing the bank $2.4 million. The National Bank of Blacksburg suffered its first cyberattack in May of 2016 when an employee was tricked by a […]

LabCorp, the place you probably visited for your employer’s drug test, suffered from a ransomware attack last week, but they’ve been scant with the details. LabCorp released a statement that told the date of the attack, that suspicious activity had occurred, and that it was from some new variant of ransomware. A report from CSO, however, […]

In July 2018, Google will publish release 68 of its Chrome web browser. Unlike prior releases of Chrome, this version can significantly affect your website traffic and possibly affect your company’s reputation. Chrome 68 will include a security check to detect whether your website is encrypted. If it is not, Chrome will immediately display a […]

Microsoft is aware of the fact that Cybercriminals are targeting Office 365 customers via phishing emails, in which the hacker sends out emails pretending to be Microsoft.  In order to combat this scheme, Microsoft flags any illegitimate emails containing “Apple” or “Microsoft.” Smart. But the bad guys aren’t just lying down and taking the defense. […]

If you think your personal property is safe when you lock your hotel room, you need to continue reading this. Hackers have devised Master Keys that enable them to gain entry into any room in a hotel within seconds. Two researchers from a company called F-Secure made this shocking discovery and proved that even the […]

Could Amazon Alexa be the new spying tool? People have raised the alarm after a user of Amazon Alexa claimed the popular digital assistant could have recorded a conversation between her and the husband and sent the recorded conversation to a random person on their contact list. This and many more questions have brought into […]

Are you tired of all the emails in your inbox telling you about privacy policy updates from every service you use? If you’re wondering why there are so many lately, you can thank GDPR. GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is a European Union regulation that went into effect today. In simple terms, it regulates […]

A new botnet has been discovered by Radware. Called DarkSky, this malware is particularly adept at evading detection. DarkSky is able to run on multiple Windows operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. It has a sandbox mode, making it capable of infecting actual in-use computers. The malware essentially lets […]

2017 was not a good year for the healthcare industry, at least as far as data breaches go. Almost 3.5 million records were compromised, an increase of nearly 25%. Medical records are a juicy target for hackers, who can sell them on the black market for identity theft or financial fraud. Healthcare centers are also […]

Even if you’re not a runner, you probably know that runners nowadays use GPS tracking technology to monitor their runs. They can keep track of their running history including how far and how fast they’ve run. They can also track their routes. All of this information can be shared with via apps. And that’s what’s […]

Though it started out as a blog platform, WordPress has become one of the most popular tools to build websites. In fact, it’s estimated that there are around 75 million websites powered by the content management system. With such popularity, however, comes a big target. Web security company Sucuri found that over 2,000 WordPress sites […]

When you think of the word “jackpot,” you probably picture a slot machine spitting out piles of coins. ATM jackpotting is the same thing, except it’s an ATM spitting out cash. It’s not new in Europe or Asia, but it’s relatively unheard of here in the US. That’s expected to change, according to a warning issued […]