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Cybercriminals return to old-school ID theft tactics

Nov 30, 2019 | Anti-Virus, Best Practices, Big Tech, Business, Consumer, credentials, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Employees, Employment, Hackers, Hacking, Identity Theft, Insider Threat, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Technology, Vulnerabilities

Cybercriminals return to old-school ID theft tactics As security professionals come up with new protocols and software to protect companies and businesses implement them, hackers are finding themselves thwarted. So many of these cybercriminals are going...

Imposter Retailers Outnumber Legitimate Ones

Nov 23, 2019 | Advertising, Black Friday, Business, Consumer, credentials, Cyber Monday, Cybercrime, Family, Gifts, Identity Theft, Imposter Sites, Internet, Online, Patching, Phishing, Phishing, Phones, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Retail, Security, Security Alerts, Updates

Imposter Retailers Outnumber Legitimate Ones Are you ready for the extreme online shopping season! While you can purchase items online anytime, holiday e-commerce sales reached $126 billion last year with Cyber Monday online purchases generating $7.9 billion...

Don’t Take The Bait – Fake Sexual Harassment Claims

Nov 16, 2019 | Business, Business Email Compromise, CEO, Consumer, credentials, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, DeepFake, Employees, Employment, Exploits, Family, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, HR, Liability, Phishing, Phishing, Psychology, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Technology

Don’t Take The Bait – Fake Sexual Harassment Claims Scammers are phishing employees of large corporations using fake US EEOC sexual harrassment complaints to offload trojan payloads of Trickbot malware onto corporate computers which direct them to hand over...

Can You Detect A Phishing Attempt?

Nov 16, 2019 | Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, credential stealing, credentials, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Employees, Employees, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacking, Liability, Phishing, Phishing, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Technology, third-world

Can You Detect A Phishing Attempt? Cybercriminals are getting better at crafting believable and sophisticated ilephishing emails that are undetectable from legitimate emails. Do you know how to spot them? If you suspect that an email is not legitimate you can...

Best Practices in Authentication Still Mostly Ignored By Businesses

Nov 16, 2019 | 2FA, Best Practices, Business, Computers, credentials, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, Employees, Employees, Hacking, Hacking, hardware token, Internet, Laptops, Malware, MFA, Phishing, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Technology

Best Practices in Authentication Still Mostly Ignored By Businesses How do cybercriminals breach into corporate systems? They use many tactics but on of the easiest is through the use of compromised credentials. The problems is that these are real valid credentials...

Cyberbreaches cause Small Businesses to Close

Nov 9, 2019 | Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Audit Logs, Best Practices, Business, credentials, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, CyberTraining, data sharing, Data Storage, Databases, Employees, Employees, Firewalls, Firewalls, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Hard Disks, Intellectual Property Theft, Laptops, Liability, Malware, Malware, Networking, Networking, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Routers, Security, Security, Security Alerts, segmentation, Software As A Service, Switches, Technology, Updates

Cyberbreaches cause Small Businesses to Close Cybercriminals have found a lucrative new target – the small business. Unfortunately, for a tenth of them the breach meant closing their doors forever. The impacts on small businesses is excentuated greatly....