In the wake of what has been described as the world’s largest cyberattack, companies and organizations internationally are scrambling to understand the vulnerabilities that led to the massive risk — as well as the measures that must be taken to…
The WannaCry Ransomware cyber attack had stricken more than 300,000 computers, according to White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert. While the rate of the attacks is decelerating, the risk is in no way over. The current threat has largely been…
Today’s cybercriminals leverage and exploit a variety of threat vectors–such as email, network traffic, user behavior, and application traffic–to insert ransomware. Without a comprehensive security strategy that secures all vectors from all advanced threats, you’re almost certain to fall victim…
Protecting your company against a cyber attack is a complex undertaking, with the need to understand the risks specific to your industry as well as the size of your operations. A recent review of more than 100,000 incidents revealed that…
If you’ve presumed ransomware criminals target only corporate conglomerates and large enterprise businesses, you’d be dangerously mistaken. In a recent piece by The Indianapolis Star, reporter Kris Turner writes ransomware—a malicious program that can hold your data hostage until you…
In one of the latest variety of cyberattacks, U.S. government agencies are being targeted by an extensive ransomware campaign that veer off from previous attacks — embedding malicious URLs in hundreds of thousands of emails. The attack is a more…
Follow any of the IT security news feeds this week and you could not miss the headlines about Office 365 being a target for the latest Cerber ransomware attack. According to this article from Trend Micro, this ransomware attack was…
