Cybersecurity & IT Insights
Bypassing Authentication, New Extortion Techniques, and the Perils of Default Passwords
So far, 2021 is starting much like 2020 ended in the world of cybersecurity – new techniques are constantly being devised by cybercriminals to earn higher payouts than ever. Here are two new techniques - and one very old one – to ring in the new year. Hackers...
Web Browser Extensions, WordPress Exploit, and The Unceremonious End of Adobe Flash
We hope you and your employees have a happy and safe Christmas holiday this year! With your help, your network can stay safe too – take care to avoid these malware schemes, which are circulating during the last two weeks of 2020. Web Browser Add-ons Are a Growing...
Keeping Your Network Safe from Accidental Infection
One of the lessons of 2020 is that you can’t take things for granted. Among the most painful things that we’ve temporarily lost is the ability to trust those closest to us. It’s not that friends, family and co-workers want to hurt us – they don’t even know that they...
How Much Bandwidth Does Your Business Need?
Whether you’re moving to a new office, your contract is up or your business is growing, determining how much bandwidth you need is more stressful than it should be. Overshoot, and you could be stuck in a contract overpaying for years. Go with too little, and you...
Three Questions for Your Line-of-Business Software Provider
If you run a business, there’s a good chance that you are using a line-of-business (LOB) application - software built specifically for businesses in your industry to get things done. If you’re in a big industry, it’s probably made by a billion-dollar software...
How To Spot Fraudulent Emails
There are some very convincing fraudulent emails out there. We’ve talked about several of them – the one that pretended to be a cybersecurity training update, the one that uses a real Microsoft login prompt, and one that uses Google Forms to copy your bank login page...
Business Cybersecurity News: Early November, 2020
New data confirms that ransomware remains a major threat for small and mid-size businesses, and extortion was taken to a new level this month – here’s what’s happening in the cybersecurity world right now. Coveware Q3 2020 Report Details Ransomware Risks Ransomware...
Beware of Fake Bank Account Login Pages
On the day of his assassination, Abraham Lincoln signed the act that created the Secret Service. It wasn’t created to protect presidents, however. It was created to combat counterfeiting – around one-third of all currency in the US was counterfeit in the 1860s. ...
What is Credential Stuffing, and Why Does It Matter?
Have you been in a situation where you didn’t have access to your password for a website or app and couldn’t remember it? One of the most annoying things about this situation is when you guess incorrectly a few times and the account gets locked. Depending on which...