Guest post by Scott Augenbaum CyberCriminal Tuesday Avoiding cyber crime. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I refer to the Tuesday after CyberMonday as CyberCriminal Tuesday. The following are a number of tips to help you stay safe this holiday season. I am so grateful that after my career with the FBI I can do […]
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Last week NBC ran an article essentially calling antivirus (AV) dead. Antivirus prevention is still an essential part of cybersecurity. “Viruses are no longer the biggest threats for most users, particularly now that software updates itself automatically and so much personal computing happens over the internet.” This is the subheading that leads into a lengthy
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From 2018 to 2020 insider threats have increased 47% leading to a 31% increase in insider threat costs. In 2020, the total cost of insider threats was just under $11.5 million. Today, those numbers are increasing as cyber criminals are offering employees a hefty payday if they infect their corporate networks with ransomware. In August
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Like every other industry, the cyber security industry is constantly moving. Along with that comes changes in the advice from experts to consumers, businesses, and governments on how to best protect their data from the cyber threats of today. However, there’s one piece of advice that has held strong as a Silver Bullet for protection
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1 Prevention is futile About 10 years ago, long before the ransomware pandemic began, the powers that be decided that cyber prevention was futile, and cyber security should exclusively focus on reaction. Development and improvements to legacy preventative solutions were halted in favor of reactive architectures such as antivirus, EDR, XDR, and EPP. A more
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Ransomware – The Looming Threat Application Whitelisting for cyber security. Throughout the last 18 months, rarely did a day go by a company, school, government agency, or public municipality went without a ransomware infection. Since January, twelve educational institutions publicly announced being hit with ransomware, with ransom payments ranging from $28,000 to $2,900. The success
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Rob Cheng talked with Liz Callaway last week, discussing a variety of cybersecurity topics. However, as expected, ransomware was a hot topic, as well as the largest ransom demand in the world being issued just days ago. Renner of Brazil Targeted with Ransomware A handful of attacks had happened since the last time Cheng and
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Global Ransomware Attacks Bring Attention to Whitelisting Business turns to Application Whitelisting for System Security. After the global ransomware attack, WannaCry, PC Matic saw an exponential spike in sales. As other variants of ransomware such as BadRabbit, Cryptolocker, Locky and GandCrab became prevalent, PC Matic saw even greater demand for ransomware protection solutions. Businesses began
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Last week, PC Matic founder and CEO, Rob Cheng joined Liz Callaway on her radio show to discuss all things cyber. Cyber Regulations Several regulations have been implemented, or are the midst of implementation, as a result of recent cyber attacks. There are compliance certifications and regulatory measures that organizations must be taking in order
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Whitelisting – Is it worth the work? Recently, Information Week reported application whitelisting as an “extreme” method for preventing malware. Is it extreme? It very well could be. Application whitelisting goes against the very core of traditional security programs. Instead of using a blacklist, which allows unknown files to execute until they prove to
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