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If you think your business is at low risk of a cyberattack because it’s too small for cybercriminals to notice, it’s time to change your thinking. According to 2016 threat data from Symantec, 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. This is a significant rise from the 18% seen in 2011.
Over the past few years, the practice of phishing, the attempts by internet attackers to illegally obtain sensitive information, has dramatically increased.
You work for a small to mid-sized business and outsource the support of your IT systems to a vendor. How do you gauge if your vendor is doing the job you pay them to do? How do you know they are implementing proper security measures? Let us face it, these questions become secondary or tertiary… Read more »
A new Apple App Store Phishing attack is using a very realistic-looking Apple App Store message to trick you into getting charged for something you did not buy. This attack may make it through all the spam filters into your inbox so you need to be alert for this scam. Details of the Apple App Store… Read more »
Description QuickTime for Windows has two critical flaws and Apple is ending support and not going to patch them. If a user visits a malicious web page or opens a malicious file, the vulnerabilities could execute code in the security context of the QuickTime player. Using unsupported software may increase the risks from viruses and… Read more »
A new phone scam is on the rise and it involves Dell PCs’ owners. Scammers call people who use Dell PCs, and claim to be Dell Tech Support Representatives. They trick users by offering to fix “existing” computer problems by installing remote access software on the victim’s computer. But instead of fixing a problem, scammers… Read more »
Thousands of WordPress websites have been hacked with malicious code and are delivering TeslaCrypt Ransomware to their unsuspecting visitors. Antivirus is not catching this yet. In the last few days, a massive number of legit WordPress sites have been reported as compromised and been redirecting visitors to what appears as malvertising websites. In reality, end-users… Read more »
What is it? Ransomware is malicious software that cyber criminals use to encrypt your computer files rendering them useless unless you pay a ransom to get them back. Last October Joseph Bonavolonta, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s CYBER and Counterintelligence Program, said “To be honest, we often advise people just to… Read more »