An Alaskan community was a victim of ransomware and literally had them dusting off their old typewrites to avoid filling out orders on pen and paper. While the source of the attack is unknown, they have discovered the malware had been on their network since May. What’s the impact: IT teams worked 20 hours a…
Archives for June 2019
Florida city pays $600k to hackers
Another victim to the thousands of cyber attacks on local governments and city offices. This time the criminals were paid quite handsomely. Can your organization afford to spend $600k in ransom then another million to replace all hardware? How did the hackers get in? Someone clicked on a phishing email because they had no security…
Ransomware Attacks on City Offices are not slowing down
When Atlanta was hit by cyber criminals in 2018, it knocked almost all the city agencies offline. This impacted everything from scheduling court cases to paying utility bills online and caused decades of correspondence to disappear. Not only was this headline news but the recovery costs were in excess of 17 Million. Are people getting…
Ransomware only attacking Small to Medium sized businesses.
ZDNet talks through the focus of most ransomware and the shift towards the SMB space. According to the latest report by Kaspersky, hackers using this ransomware target smaller companies as their are easier targets and the seizure of their data is more catastrophic. This makes them pay the ransom a lot faster. See if you’re…
A few tips to keeping your online data safe
Did you know when you share your location on apps, it can assist cyber criminals in stealing your identity. Great article sharing tips on how to keep your personal info safe from online threats. Another way to ensure you are not already compromised is an internal threat assessment. To receive a complimentary threat assessment…click here….
Why are non-profits a target for hackers?
In a recent article , KIRO radio discuss the impact a food bank saw after their entire business was compromised. “What we’ve sort of learned through the process is if you try to pay a guy for your stuff back it’s still going to come to you damaged. It’s still going to be about 40…
FBI: Don’t Trust HTTPS or Padlock on Websites
Good read….”Thankfully, education is the single security measure against which criminals can’t work around: an aware user, who had been trained to look for misspellings in the URL of a webpage and knows not to trust a padlock icon, is much harder to lure into giving away personal information or clicking on malware-spreading links.” Interested…
WannaCry 2019: Ransomware still thriving
In a recent article by Healthcare IT, they discuss how having an up-to-date picture of all of the assets on a network allows a hospital to proceed accordingly. You need to be able to monitor incoming threats on a daily basis. If you don’t have this today, you should be! Click the link to get…
