April 2014: Did you know you can rent malware-as-a-service from an underground market in much the same way you can rent a CRM or cloud storage from the above-ground market? Scammers shop for malware like businesses shop for software, choosing the best solution for their particular need – or caper. Here’s how the risks from …
March 2014: Think email phishing isn’t a big deal? Think again! Hackers sent phishing emails to one of Target’s HVAC vendors and got exactly what they were looking for — backdoor access into the retail giant’s network! Even if you don’t have point of sale (POS) devices, scammers can still get into your network by …
January 2014: Is a nasty piece of malware hiding inside your computer, waiting for instructions to turn itself on and suck up your personal information? Hopping horror! Recently nearly two million login credentials for more than 93,000 websites, including Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo! Twitter and ADP, were stolen by “zombies.” Here’s how to find out …
December 2013: Good news! You can now decrypt CryptoLocker without paying a ransom. Follow the instructions — Leapfrog approved! It sounds like a fun app or a kids’ Halloween party game – CryptoLocker. Instead, it’s ransomware that’s infecting computers across the US and holding hard-drive data hostage. CryptoLocker gets onto your PC via an email attachment and runs …
November 2013: Are you including metadata tags on your company’s important files — tags like Private, Restricted, Classified or Super-Duper-007 Top Secret? If not, should you? Tagging your files is a key component of Data Leak Protection (DLP), which strategically protects data by monitoring it and blocking it from being shared with unauthorized people. Us …
September 2013: While you’re being super-diligent about protecting your company’s data, you may also to do something just as important: CYA. In this case, that also means Cover Your Assets! Cyber security insurance can cover you for things like data breaches, network damage, cyber extortion, damage-control PR and other unpleasantries, including the cost of getting …
August 2013: Has your company let its guard down regarding its classified information? Does everyone have access to almost everything, except maybe financial and human resources files? Could some team members be confused about what’s yours and what’s theirs? If so, it’s time to leap into action and monitor your intellectual property (IP) — your …
MAY 2013: It’s easy to get complacent about the things we do everyday — using our smartphones, chatting with friendly people, scrolling through email, and swapping information between devices can become mindless routines. Yet these things can be the weakest links in your company’s network security! Criminals and hackers love infiltrating our routine habits because …
OCTOBER 2012: Want to lower the odds of someone getting in to your network to as low as one in 100,000,000,000,000? (That’s 100 trillion!) Then add a third layer of protection! It’s not that difficult or expensive to take advantage of three-factor authentication. By layering authentication factors, or the factors that identify your team so …
AUGUST 2012: USB flash drives (or thumb drives) have never been the pinnacle of security but the problem is getting worse for tech-loving frogs worldwide. New and clever malware code is circumventing the usual routes to get at your data. This means each time you pop a drive into your USB port, you could be …