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How Do I Know if My Business Computers Have Been Hacked
Some of the nicest people get hacked. Don't let it happen to you. So, how do you know if your business has been hacked? My bet is you don't—and you may never know. The sad fact is that most of the systems you are using right now do NOT have any ability to alert you to...
Basic IT Hygiene to Prevent Ransomware-10 Steps All Financial Firms Must Take
These are some thoughts from John Wooden, legendary coach of 10 UCLA Bruins NCAA Championship teams, which included notable NBA Hall of Fame players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich. “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny...
Why Backups And MFA Are So Important For Ransomware
Two of the simplest and cheapest ways to protect your company from a ransomware attack are Multifactor Authentication and a fresh backup. Here's why. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophicdata loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojanis...
The Biggest Ransomware Fiascoes of 2019
Company leaders often think that a cyber attack will never happen to them because their company and its data are of no interest to hackers. The list of companies below shared that point of view. But not anymore because they have made the list of the biggest...
Cost of Ransomware Prevention Versus Recovery
It’s time to recognize cyber threats, understand them, and protect ourselves because the cost of ransomware prevention vs recovery is a hell of a lot better business decision.
Ransomware Best Practice Checklist
Ransomware. The fact that only top firms make headlines when they are hit may lead some in Main-street businesses to believe that they aren't targets for hackers. Somehow, non-Fortune 500™ companies are immune from attack because they are small fish. Of course, no...
What to Do If Your Financial Firm Gets Infected with Ransomware
Ransomware happens. You do your best to prevent it from happening to you, but inevitably someone clicks on something they shouldn't or your protection tool misses the latest strain of hack and your systems get infected. There is no "one size fits all" solution for...
The Latest Ransomware Threat
It’s no surprise that the state of cybersecurity is constantly changing. Criminals will be criminals. Knowing this does not make it any less annoying to think that just when you have addressed one vulnerability, another one (or two) opens up. It can drive a business...
Take Ransomware Seriously…Seriously
I cannot tell you how often I hear company executives saying something like this: "No one wants my data, so why is anyone going to spend the time to hack me? I'm not too concerned with security". Ugh. That point may be true to them, but it has no bearing at all on...
Phishing Happens and MFA May Not Save You
I wrote a blog article a while ago about how sh*t happens. Sh*tty things will happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them, so the important thing is how you deal with them when they become reality. Well, some cybersecurity sh*t happened recently and it was a great...
Security – Just Deal With It Already!
There are way too many stories about companies that discover a security breach and then find out that the actual breach happened months or even years ago. Yikes. No one ever wants to be in that position so why not try to avoid it? Krebs on Security wrote a good...
A Dark Web Story
I have written about the Dark Web in the past, and nothing has changed, but I did want to share a real life story. Now that we have access to the Dark Web to run reports on client data breaches, we have seen interesting results....
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