Application Whitelisting – What is it? Before we dive too deep into the concept of whitelisting, readers must understand what application whitelisting is. In addition, understand how it differs from alternative cyber security methods. First, application whitelisting is a proactive approach to cyber security. A security solution that employs application whitelisting will only allow known […]
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Liberty Life Insurance Suffers from Ransomware Attack Liberty Life insurance, headquartered in Southern Africa, is attempting to recover from a ransomware attack. On June 16, 2018, the organization notified millions of their customers the company had been the victim of a cyber attack. As a result, several emails and attachments that were encrypted. In addition, there
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Gartner Security and Risk Summit Recap Last week I had the privilege of attending the Gartner Security and Risk Summit in National Harbor, Maryland. Anyone who is anyone in the IT industry was present. The agenda was filled with presentations from C-level executives from major enterprise organizations, including Robert Herjavec from the Herjavec Group. Needless
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FTC Settles with Tech Support Scammers — Again… In October of 2017, the FTC and the State of Alabama settled with multiple tech support companies who were scamming victims out of hundreds of dollars. Now, less than a year later, the FTC settled with another individual tied to two more Indian-based technical support scam companies.
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FBI Hooks a Major Phish This week, the FBI had a big win when it comes to making a dent in cyber crime. After investigating a crime ring, the FBI, Secret Service, Postal Inspection Services, Homeland Security Investigations, and Treasury Department arrested 74 alleged cyber criminals for taking part in a business email scam. A majority
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The City of Atlanta’s Ransomware Attack Costs Keep Growing On March 22nd, PC Pitstop shared the story of the SamSam ransomware attack that took down the City of Atlanta. It took almost a week, before the city’s offices were able to turn on their computers, and now, almost three months later, the infection is still
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PC Pitstop, headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa has outperformed other well-known small and medium-sized companies on recent business rankings conducted by Comparably. Comparably uses employee feedback to gather information comprehensive compensation and culture data within the organization. They then rank the companies based on this employee feedback. PC Pitstop Earns Recognition by Comparably for Three Major Categories
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Minnesota Mental Health Facility Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology, located in Rochester, Minnesota discovered its files had been locked with the ransomware variant deemed Triple-M on March 31, 2018. Beyond locking the facility’s files, the attack also disabled the computers’ system restore functions and reformatted the network storage device; which was
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Cyber Security Shouldn’t Take a Backseat for Summer Travel While traveling this summer, it is entirely likely users will find themselves in need of a WiFi connection. Often times, users will connect to a public WiFi connection to conduct whatever business they need to accomplish. This may include online banking, checking work emails, researching a topic,
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Concerns Arise Over Potential Cyber Attack Targeting Ukraine According to BleepingComputer, some major fears are arising regarding a potential cyber attack that is targeting Ukraine. So far, over 500,000 routers, in 54 different countries, have been infected with a malicious virus deemed VPNFilter. The infected devices include: Linksys, Models: E1200, E2500, and WRVS4400N Mikrotik RouterOS for
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