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 …
You may have heard that some personal information for 24 million customers of Zappos, the online shoe-store giant, was breached last month. The hackers didn’t get access to complete credit card numbers (just the last four digits) or unencrypted passwords (just the encrypted ones), but they did get access to names and street, shipping and …
Do you want to send a big file quickly and for free? You have a lot of easy, convenient cloud options to choose from — Dropbox, Box.net and YouSENDit, to name a few. And do you also want to send it securely? Now, that can be trickier. Especially if you’re sending sensitive information or work …
As we inch toward the somber 10th anniversary of 9/11, many businesses are paying special attention to what President Obama calls “one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces”– cyber security. On the national level, it’s the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) job to keep your business infrastructure safe. But …