We deliver a set of services that helps keep you on track with the latest developments, both what to watch for and what to keep away from. It’s good to know what effect technology has on your business. 1. Social Media 75% of security breaches are staged by external actors. When your employees interact […]
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Businesses must prepare the front line of defense against ransomware attacks: your employees. Today’s companies must provide regular and mandatory cybersecurity training to ensure all employees are able to spot and avoid a potential phishing scam in their inbox, a leading entrance point for ransomware. Businesses must leverage multiple solutions to prepare for the worst.
A “spoofed” email is essentially a “pretend” email when the sender deliberately manipulates the email’s headers to make the message appear as though it was authored by someone else. For example, you receive an email that looks like it came from your boss, from your bank, or from the government – and the sender’s address
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a statement indicating that an email phishing campaign is in the wild that
The Oregon DHS recently disclosed that the personal health information (PHI) of over 350,000 clients had been compromised in data breach. A phishing URL embedded into the spear-phishing email was clicked by nine employees, resulting in granting cybercriminals the access mailboxes of nearly 2 million of employee accounts. On January 28, Oregon DHS confirmed that
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Sextortion, yes that is correct, is a new twist on an old email scam in which the scammer has indicated that they have compromised you by accessing your computer via malware and recorded you or your household members in an intimate setting. They may threaten to have the video they made of you uploaded to
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There are many important numbers in the universal math. Primal, odds, evens, irrational. And then there is one to rule them all. A mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter… what we all know – or should know – as pi. The Babylonians estimated pi to be roughly 3.125, while the Egyptians estimated it
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Normally, regular small and local businesses are focused on selling their services and products on a local area. Small businesses are often made of about 3 to 10 employees and the management of the whole business volume is not that complicated, if you consider that larger companies have a specific professional who handle the entire
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People seem to be able to fear anything. Pick an item – and chances are, there is a phobia that is designed just for that. Nomophobia – one of the latest to join the rank of human conditions – is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. In fact, this term it is
Emails and Spam Facts: 60 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they
