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

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...

Stimulus Payments Easy to Intercept

Apr 18, 2020 | bank account information, Business, fraudster, Government, Internet, IRS, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Stimulus, stolen identity, Technology

Stimulus Payments Easy to Intercept If you are expecting a check from the US government you may be in for a surprise if you are one of the millions that are not required to file a tax return. For these people, the IRS has set up a site where they can give...

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...

Anyone Can Be A Victim – Business Email Compromise Does Not Play Favorites

Mar 7, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Compliance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Employees, Employees, Executives, Executives, Extortion, Financial, Hackers, Hacking, Human Element, Inattention, Insider Threat, Internet, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Social Engineering, Technology

Anyone Can Be A Victim – Business Email Compromise Does Not Play Favorites No matter how big you are –, you can be a victim. Business email compromise can happen to anyone, and it only takes a single moment of inattention for it to work. To carry out a...

Businesses Beware: Ransomware is on the rise, again

Feb 29, 2020 | Business, compromised machines, Corporate Reputation, Critical data, Cryptocurrency, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data, Data Assets, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Financial, Hacking, Malware, Malware, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Security, Security, Technology, Technology, trojans, Zero-Day

Businesses Beware: Ransomware is on the rise, again Companies are under attack from Ransomware gangs and are paying a high price. Cybercriminals who were surreptitiously using business computing resources to mine cryptocurrencies have found that with the huge drop in...

All Businesses are Tech Businesses – Like it or Not

Feb 29, 2020 | Asset Management, Best Practices, Business, Cable Companies, Cloud, Cloud Vendors, Computers, Cyber breaches, Cyber Insurance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Data, Data Assets, Data Brokers, data sharing, Data Storage, Databases, Domain Name Service, Email, Employees, Executives, Financial, Future Workforce, Generation-Y, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Incident Response, Information Technology, Insider Threat, Internet, Internet Service Providers, IoT, Jobs, Liability, Machine Learning, Malware, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Networking, Open Source, Organized Crime, Password Managers, Passwords, Phishing, predictive algorithms, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security, Security Assessments, Shadow-IT, Software As A Service, Technology, Technology, Unsecured, Web Tools, Zero-Day

All Businesses are Tech Businesses – Like it or Not The world of information is remaking businesses with new technologies turning all businesses into technology companies like it or not. Companies who continue to believe that they are not technology companies...