by: Matt Haring If you haven’t embraced backups yet because you think you are so tech savvy that you wouldn’t open spam email or fall for social engineering tricks, then brace yourself for cryptoworms. Security researchers warned that self-propagating ransomware, the semi-autonomous kind that doesn’t need any help from humans to spread, is coming [...]
by: Matt Haring Malware is used when describing software that can cause issues ranging from computer crashes to identity theft. While this is a two-part strategy, you are the biggest factor in keeping yourself safe. Keeping Yourself Safer with Smarter Behavior You are the single biggest factor in preventing a malware infection on your PC. [...]
The world of fraud prevention (and information security in general), is characterized by an arms race between the good guys and the bad guys. Security companies and financial institutions develop solutions, procedures and policies to thwart fraud attempts, while fraudsters develop the tools and techniques to circumvent these systems. If a certain fraudulent activity is [...]
by Brandon Garcin Believe it or not, the first data backups were made on paper. Dating back as early as the 18th century, the “technology” was used in the form of paper tapes constructed from punch cards to control the functions of automated machinery such as textile looms. The concept of these cards was then [...]
by Mary McCoy Have you opened any invoice attachments lately? Now, there's a new ransomware called Locky that's joined the ranks of viruses like CryptoLocker and CryptoWall. This latest malware threat was detected just last week and already IT service providers and MSPs have discovered that it's spread at an alarming rate, employing sophisticated social [...]
Why should I care about online security? It’s tempting to assume that only big businesses or big celebrities have to worry about their online security. After all, personal information isn’t as interesting to anonymous hackers as if it was personal information of big timers, is it? But the truth is, we all have information [...]
The single biggest factor in preventing a malware infection on your PC is YOU. You don’t need expert knowledge or special training. You just need vigilance to avoid downloading and installing anything you do not understand or trust, no matter how tempting might be! Below are some tips on how to easily avoid a computer [...]
Mobile Data Protection Today we are writing about how malicious hackers are stealing private mobile device data by accessing local backup files stored on both PC and Mac computers. Network Security Analysts have identified 704 samples of six Trojan, adware, and HackTool families for Windows® or Mac® OS X® systems that used this technique to steal [...]
Passwords are something that every user hates; having to enter passwords several times in a day in order to access a system. In Information Security there is a concept called CIA. This is not the Central Intelligence Agency, but rather represents the three tenants of Information Security: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Passwords tie into this [...]
I want to start off this post with a quote from the late Steve Jobs circa 1997, "I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster… carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison." He envisioned a day when one wouldn't need to have disks and [...]