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Who Is Falling for COVID-19 Scams…Lots of People

May 2, 2020 | Agencies, Banking, Banking, Biological Viruses, Business, communication, Consumer, CoronaVirus, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial, fraudster, Government, Hackers, Internet, News, Phishing, Phishing, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Smishing, Technology, Vishing

Who Is Falling for COVID-19 Scams…Lots of People Hackers are spreading their scams widely in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and unfortunately, tricking many people into clicking on these fraudulent spam offers. Having been sequestered in our homes and feel...

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...

Extensive US Intellectual Property theft by Chinese being investigated by FBI

Feb 15, 2020 | Access Controls, Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Asset Management, Attack Vectors, Audit Logs, Business, Business Email Compromise, China, Cloud, Cloud Vendors, Compliance, Corporate Reputation, credential stealing, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Data Storage, Economic Disruption, Employees, Executives, Extortion, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Intricate Data Systems, Legacy Systems, Malware, Managed Services Provider (MSP), Market Value, Nationstates, News, Patching, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security Alerts, Smishing, Social Engineering, Technology, Third - Party, third-world, Updates, Vishing

Extensive US Intellectual Property theft by Chinese being investigated by FBI Intellectual theft is a huge problem in the US and the largest perpetrator is the Chinese government. They target military sub-contractors and sub-sub-contractors, universities,...

Technology Can Only Protect You So Much — Then Other Tactics are Needed

Jan 18, 2020 | Business, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Data Assets, Employees, Employment, Human Element, Identity Theft, Insider Threat, Internet, Passwords, Phishing, Phishing, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Smishing, Technology, Vishing, Vulnerabilities

Technology Can Only Protect You So Much — Then Other Tactics are Needed Businesses of all sizes are now finding that all the technological security they put in place cannot protect them from threats that go after identity and credentials access. In the...

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks

Jan 18, 2020 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Economic Disruption, Education, Employee Training, Employees, Employment, Exploits, Fines and Penalties, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Phishing, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Security, Smishing, Social Engineering, Social Media, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Threats, Tracking

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks We depend on our smart devices and use them as a primary communication tool. Studies found that young adult users send over 2000 texts per month and receive over 1800 with that volume people are less wary, and it is...