How you can identify different types of phishing attacks
Do you know your spear phishing and vishing from your whaling and clone phishing? We explain how to recognize each type of threat. Every data breach and online attack seems to involve some kind of phishing attempt to steal password credentials, to launch fraudulent...
You Aren’t Paying Attention If You Aren’t Scared of Ransomware
What do the City of Atlanta and Baltimore, Hancock Health, the Chicago Police Department, Boeing, and Finger Lakes Health all have in common? Ransomware. These extortion style attacks target small and large businesses, from government to healthcare and everything in...
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2019 – 1.34 billion records leaked
We would’ve been talking about an extraordinarily low number of breached records this month if it hadn’t been for a string of incidents in India, another Facebook gaffe and a massive blunder in China, in which a series of companies exposed almost 600 million...
How cybercriminals hold data hostage… and why the best solution is often paying a ransom
Targets have included hospitals and municipalities, but the FBI says anyone on the internet should expect to be attacked by cybercriminals. The cities of Newark, Atlanta, and Sarasota have been hit. So have Cleveland’s airport and San Francisco’s transit...
