Malware | Craig Peterson | America's Leading Network Security Coach

Recognizing and Avoiding Spyware

Apr 28, 2020 | Business, Features, iHeart, Internet, Security, Spyware, Technology

Recognizing and Avoiding Spyware Hi. Craig Peterson here with a blink into spyware. To start with, the term “spyware” doesn’t refer to the Russians. It isn’t the KGB. Spyware is also known as “adware.”More specifically, it refers to...

Thank you Coronavirus – Governments Are Watching Us

Apr 25, 2020 | Agencies, Biological Viruses, Business, China, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Cybercrime, Economic Disruption, Expose Client Functions, Government, industrial espionage, Internet, Malware, Monitoring, Monitoring, Privacy, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Remote-Work, Security, Security Alerts, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, trojans, Tyranny, Unsecured Devices

Thank you Coronavirus – Governments Are Watching Us Quarntines are meant to help control those who are capable of infection from interacting with the general populace. It is not meant to curtail all economic activity of the society. With this pandemic,...

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?...

Google sent users 40,000 warnings of nation-state hack attacks in 2019

Apr 4, 2020 | Agencies, Business, Business Email Compromise, Censorship, China, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, DOJ, Economic Disruption, FBI, Fines and Penalties, FTC, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Internet, Internet Service Providers, IoT, Iran, Journalists, Law Enforcement, Malware, Malware, Monitoring, Nationstates, North Korea, Patching, Phishing, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, Security, Security Alerts, Smishing, Social Engineering, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, Third - Party, third-world, Threat Analysis, trojans, Updates, Vishing, Web Tools, Zero-Day

Google sent users 40,000 warnings of nation-state hack attacks in 2019 Google’s threat analysis group, which counters targeted and government-backed hacking against the company and its users, sent account holders almost 40,000 warnings in 2019, with government...

Being Successful While Remote Working

Mar 21, 2020 | Agencies, Announcements, Best Practices, Biological Viruses, Biological Warfare, Business, Cable Companies, Cisco, Cloud, Cloud Vendors, Compliance, Computers, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19, Critical data, Cyber Liability, Data Storage, Domain Name Service, duck duck go, Employees, Encryption, Executives, FDA, Filtering, Firewalls, Firewalls, Government, Information Technology, Internet, IoT, Laptops, Malware, Networking, Networking, Operating Systems, Pandemic, Patches, Patching, Quarantine, Quarantine, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulatory Compliance, Remote Work, Remote-Work, Routers, Routers, Security, Security, Security Alerts, segmentation, Social Distancing, Software As A Service, Switches, Technology, Updates, Updates, VPN, VPN, WebEx, WHO

Being Successful While Remote Working If you’re starting to work from home or just got a remote position, you’re probably looking forward to not spending time on a frustrating commute and staying in your pajamas until noon. Enjoy that for the first day or two! But if...

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...