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How to Evict Attackers Living Off Your Land

Apr 4, 2020 | Anti-Virus, Applications, Attack Vectors, Audit Logs, Business, Cloud, Compliance, compromised machines, Critical data, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Firewalls, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Incident Response, industrial espionage, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Legacy Systems, Malware, Monitoring, Nationstates, Networking, Organized Crime, Patching, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Ransomware, Routers, Security, Security Alerts, Smishing, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, trojans, Updates, Vishing, VPN

How to Evict Attackers Living Off Your Land Why invest in top-shelf malware just to have it be turned away by antivirus tools again and again? Why launch a cyberattack like that when your target is already full of perfectly good attack tools, just waiting for you?...

Proceeds from Cybercriminal Activity Results in Charges Against an Atlanta Criminal Gang

Mar 21, 2020 | Agencies, Attack Vectors, Bitcoin, Business, Cryptocurrency, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Data Loss, FBI, Financial, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Judicial, Legal, Monitoring, News, Patching, Police, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Surveillance, Technology, Under Arrest, Updates

Proceeds from Cybercriminal Activity Results in Charges Against an Atlanta Criminal Gang Cybercriminals are not smart enough to outsmart the Federal Government especially when they get greedy. For 24 members of an Atlanta cybercrime gang involved in fraud and money...

Your Employer Says Go Home and Work — Now what?

Mar 21, 2020 | Backup, Business, Compliance, Computers, Corporate Reputation, credentials, Critical data, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Data Loss, Data Storage, Employees, Firewalls, Government, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Malware, Networking, News, Patching, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Remote-Work, Routers, Security, Security Alerts, Technology, Unsecured Devices, Updates, VPN

Your Employer Says Go Home and Work — Now what? For many companies and their employees, this widespread hysteria over this coronavirus pandemic has taken everyone by surprise. Remote work might have been a consideration but now is not an option but a...

Don’t Store Data You Don’t Need

Mar 7, 2020 | Asset Management, Attack Vectors, Audit Logs, Best Practices, Business, Compliance, Critical data, cyberattacks, Data, Data Assets, data sharing, Data Storage, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Hard Disks, Intricate Data Systems, Policies and Procedures, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, records, Security, Security, Technology, Unsecured

Don’t Store Data You Don’t Need Today all businesses are tech businesses. That requires that they all comply with different variations of regulatory compliance, the requirements which are often changing faster than possible implementation. Unfortunately, due to these...

Cryptocurrencies and Insurance Increases Ransomware Profitability

Mar 7, 2020 | Access Controls, Asset Management, Best Practices, Business, Compliance, credential stealing, credentials, Critical data, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Data Assets, Employees, Hacking, Human Element, industrial espionage, Information Technology, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Legacy Systems, Operating Systems, Patching, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Ransomware, Ransomware, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Technology, Technology, Third - Party, Updates

Cryptocurrencies and Insurance Increases Ransomware Profitability Ransomware is rising like a phoenix from the ashes again. Companies are paying enormous ransoms in cryptocurrencies and insurance companies paying out claims, which in turn is adding to the rise in...

Liability belongs to You: Misconfigured Clouds and Security

Feb 29, 2020 | Attack Vectors, Best Practices, Cloud, Compliance, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Employees, Hacking, Hacking, industrial espionage, Intellectual Property Theft, Liability, Malware, misconfigured environments, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Frameworks, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Technology, Third - Party, Updates

Liability belongs to You: Misconfigured Clouds and Security Companies that were sold on Cloud Services as a cost-effective solution to maintaining a corporate server with specialized software were ill-equipped to understand all of the technological security...