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Reducing the Time to Discovery: How to Determine if You Have Been Hacked
For most small businesses, the chances of falling prey to a long-term covert surveillance operation by well-resourced, likely state-backed actors are slim. To recap, that is what the evidence suggests happened in the SolarWinds compromise discovered last December. Many believe the company’s Orion update was used to conduct cyber espionage…Read More
How IT Will Prevail in the 2021 Cyber-Demic
While we can all rejoice that 2020 is over, cybersecurity experts agree we haven’t seen the last of the pandemic-related rise in cyberattacks. Throughout the last year, we’ve seen huge spikes in phishing, malicious domains, malware and more, and we don’t expect that to slow down. As employees around the…Read More
Staying a Step Ahead of the Hack
Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware. Social…Read More
Why Workers Aren’t Confident in their Companies’ Security (and What to Do About it)
According to data from a recent report, only 60% of office workers worldwide believe their company is resilient against cyberattacks. Nearly one in four (23%) admit to not knowing, while nearly one in five (18%) flat-out think it isn’t. In the anonymous, write-in responses to the survey, many workers agreed…Read More
Small Businesses are Counting on Their MSPs this Small Business Saturday
This November 28 may be the most important Small Business Saturday since the occasion was founded by American Express in 2010. As early as July, nearly half (43 percent) of small businesses had closed at least temporarily, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…Read More
The Nastiest Malware of 2020
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. For the third year running, we’ve examined the year’s biggest cyber threats and ranked them to determine which ones are the absolute worst. Somewhat unsurprisingly, phishing and RDP-related breaches remain the top methods we’ve seen cybercriminals using to launch their attacks. Additionally, while new examples…Read More
It’s Time to Talk Seriously About Deepfakes and Misinformation
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Like many of the technologies we discuss on this blog—think phishing scams or chatbots—deepfakes aren’t necessarily new. They’re just getting a whole lot better. And that has scary implications for both private citizens and businesses alike. The term “deepfakes,” coined by a Reddit user in…Read More
False Confidence is the Opposite of Cyber Resilience
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Have you ever met a person who thinks they know it all? Or maybe you’ve occasionally been that person in your own life? No shame and no shade intended – it’s great (and important) to be confident about your skills. And in cases where you…Read More
Unexpected Side Effects: How COVID-19 Affected our Click Habits
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Phishing has been around for ages and continues to be one of the most common threats that businesses and home users face today. But it’s not like we haven’t all been hearing about the dangers of phishing for years. So why do people still click?…Read More
Ransomware: The Bread and Butter of Cybercriminals
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Substitute your digital space for your home and encryption for the safe and you have what’s known as ransomware. Ransomware is a type of malware. After the initial infection, your files are encrypted, and a note appears demanding payment, which is usually in the form…Read More