by Sam Orszulak | April 12, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, Malware | 0 Comments

Sixteen months ago, researchers reported an unsettling escalation in hacks targeting power plants, gas refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure. Attackers who may have been working on behalf of a nation caused an operational outage at...

by Trang Nguyen | April 12, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

According to one source, 86 percent of C-level executives believe that the risk of a data breach is higher when employees work remotely. In addition to this, CybSafe reported that one-third of UK businesses have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months because of remote work.

by Sam Orszulak | April 8, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, New Technology | 0 Comments

Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal. By making programming more mathematical, a community of computer scientists is hoping to eliminate the coding bugs that can open doors to hackers, spill digital secrets and generally plague modern...

by Sam Orszulak | April 8, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Did You Know? | 0 Comments

For all the hundreds of firewall rules and network protocols that your security staff may put in place to better safeguard your network, sometimes there’s simply no accounting for the most unpredictable variable of them all: human behavior. Whether...

by Jarra Gruen | April 5, 2019 | Cloud Computing, EOL, Microsoft, New Technology | 0 Comments

Windows 7 is a decade old now. It exited mainstream support and entered its extended support phase in January 2015, which meant users could still get free critical security patches, bug fixes, and technical support for the next five years.

by Sam Orszulak | April 3, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Healthcare, HIPPA | 0 Comments

A ransomware attack can prove costly to resolve. That cost was not deemed worth it by one Michigan practice, which has now permanently closed its doors. The ransomware encrypted the system at Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek which...

by Sam Orszulak | April 1, 2019 | Apple, Cyber Security, Data, Microsoft | 0 Comments

As Apple unveiled its new Apple Card at a big media event Monday, the company touted what it sees as one of the credit card’s biggest selling points: a “unique security and privacy architecture” that uses a “dynamic security code” to prevent Apple...

by Trang Nguyen | March 28, 2019 | Cyber Security, Did You Know?, Microsoft | 0 Comments

Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group.

by Sam Orszulak | March 26, 2019 | Cyber Security, Enterprise | 0 Comments

The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company’s server and used it to push the malware to...

by Sam Orszulak | March 25, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Facebook | 0 Comments

By Mike Fiorito, VP of Business Development at MDS Recently, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management systems. This internal bug caused hundreds of millions of Facebook and Instagram user passwords to be stored as plaintext. As a...