Our priority is educating and making the community aware of cybersecurity events that may impact a business organization. As part of this ongoing effort, we want to update you on the latest development if you have not already seen it in the news. Microsoft and NSA confirmed that there was a dangerous bug in the […]
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Even big companies with huge investments in cybersecurity, such as Home Depot and Uber, can fall victim to cyberattacks. Given tighter budgets, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) such as yours are more vulnerable to online threats. But as a business owner, you can add a different layer of protection for your SMB by getting a
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack can take down an organization’s website — and even big brands are not safe from it. In December 2015, the BBC suffered one of the biggest DDoS attacks yet. The incident, which lasted more than three hours, caused the BBC’s website to display error messages and some of its pages
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A ransomware attack can have severe effects on your business. The WannaCry incident that happened in 2017, for instance, disrupted organizations in over 150 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia, and caused financial losses exceeding $4 billion. To effectively protect your company from ransomware, you need to understand what it is and
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Internet appliance maker SonicWall reported 10.52 billion malware attacks in 2018, a sharp rise from the 8.62 billion recorded in 2017. For you to effectively protect your company from this threat, you must first be familiar with the different types of malware and the dangers they pose. The most common types of malware are: #1.
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Cybercrime is now one of the fastest-growing crimes, beating the global illegal drug trade in terms of profitability. Estimates indicate that it will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021, a huge increase from $3 trillion back in 2015. Businesses of all sizes are vulnerable to the threat — in fact, 43% of cyberattacks
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When the European Union issued the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, companies sent their customers emails regarding their updated privacy policy. Hackers took this as an opportunity to send out a phishing attack disguised as an email from wildly successful hospitality brokerage Airbnb. Such an underhanded tactic is not uncommon these days, so you
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A 2018 report blamed phishing for 48% of all data breaches, most of which occurred during the last three months of the year. With breaches costing companies millions of dollars annually, it’s crucial that you protect your organization from phishing. One of the best ways to do this is to conduct a phishing test. What is
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In what is considered to be one of the biggest data breaches of all time, a staggering 21 million unique passwords were discovered in an online hacking forum in January 2019. Dubbed as “Collection #1” by security researcher Troy Hunt, the breach proved even more that password authentication alone is no longer as secure as
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One of the greatest mistakes small business owners can make is thinking no one is interested in their business’s data. In truth, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are among the most prone to cyberattacks, with 67 percent of SMBs experiencing an attack and 58 percent suffering from a data breach in the last 12 months,
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