Cyber Defense Magazine Announces Winners of the InfoSec Awards 2020 Winners of 8th Annual Coveted Information Security Awards announced today during RSA Conference 2020 SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 24, 2020 – Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine has spent the past six months scouring the globe and found 3,200 companies […]
Another scam posing as PC Matic We all know how many scams are going on out there. PC Matic does its part to proactively warn our customers about the scams we see involving our name. This one came in yesterday, and we wanted to talk about it. Just looking at the email above, there are
Fraudsters Portray PC Matic Support Read More »
2020 Cybersecurity Product / Service Awards – Winners and Finalists The 2020 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards honor individuals, products and companies that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. Based on the strength of their nomination and the popular vote by members of the Information Security Community (both ratings and comments), we are announcing the following winners and
Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Read More »
A different approach to protection To understand why whitelist protection is different, you first should know how the blacklist works. Traditional antivirus, blacklist, works by making a list of all the known “bad things” and then blocking them from a computer. This approach means you need multiple layers of protection. Often, you’ll see firewalls, email
Avoid being caught by scammers posing as PC Matic There are a million scams out there. According to the FTC, over 3 million in 2019 to be exact. The most prevalent form last year was impostor scams, and PC Matic is not immune to that either. We frequently hear about customers who, instead of contacting
PC Matic Support Scams Read More »
Teaching America’s youth the importance of cyber security No one is arguing that cyber security is an ongoing problem. Ransomware attacks are rising. As a result of ransomware payments, the ransoms are becoming more expensive. A proactive approach to the ransomware problem lies in the education of America’s youth. Educating youth on a topic, bringing
Youth Cyber Education Read More »
A vast majority of today’s cyber security solutions are failing. Many cyber security vendors are misguided when it comes to cyber security protection. One of the biggest “buzz phrases” in the security world is detect and respond. Therefore, cyber security vendors are deploying an endpoint detect and respond (EDR) component to their existing products. To
Ransomware Is Not a Detect & Respond Issue Read More »
Safety procedures in place by the district mitigated losses Another school has been attacked with ransomware. Lost Altos Union HS discovered the hit when an employee tried logging into email at 5:30am the morning of January 29th. From there, the full scope of the breach was discovered. Los Altos had some good safety procedures in
Los Altos Union High School Attacked By Ransomware Read More »
Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) is easier to purchase than you may think Let me start by saying that when I was asked to write this post, I didn’t think it would take me down a dark and twisted rabbit hole. And yet, here I am, having spent the better part of four hours reading
Ransomware as a Service Read More »
K12 Cyber Security: It is time for school trustees and administrators to embrace their leadership responsibility to safeguard their school communities from emerging digital threats As published on DallasNews.com By Doug Levin https://k12cybersecure.com/ 12:00 AM on Feb 6, 2020 K12 Education Cyber Security. Texas schools face an immediate threat that few parents and educators have considered:
K12 Cyber Security: What it will take to defend schools from digital threats Read More »