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A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware
July is ransomware awareness month. While ransomware has been making headlines since the late 1980s, it remains prevalent and is impacting businesses of all sizes. In the ‘2023 ransomware insights report‘, our research shows that 73 percent of the 1,350...
Think you’re ready to hire a salesperson for your MSP? Think again.
I’ve got a hard truth I want to share with MSP owners: Before you hire a person to do the job, you need to master it yourself, and this is especially true with sales. I run Tech Pro Marketing, an...
Three things to know about banking trojans
The failures of three large banks earlier this year sent shockwaves through the public. A banking crisis makes (almost) everyone nervous, which in turn creates new opportunities for social engineering, phishing, and other attacks designed to get your money. One attack we...
Tech Time Warp: Malware in the “Form” of a boot sector virus
Although this week’s Tech Time Warp topic is not as prevalent today, boot sector viruses were a widespread issue in the 1990s and 2000s. Especially common during the days of MS-DOS and floppy disks, a boot sector virus attacks a...
Making security pay
Service providers often struggle financially, even when their business is growing, because it can be challenging to achieve and maintain profitability. MSPs have seen success by adding security services to their offering to offset this challenge. However, security needs vary...
Survey shows strong need for external cloud expertise
A global survey of 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp finds 43 percent plan to work more strategically with systems integrators, resellers, and consultants, to better manage their cloud computing environments. There is...
Cybersecurity view from an artificial intelligence optimist
2023 has been the year of generative AI. Will it transform cybersecurity as we know it? Or will the status quo prevail as a continual cat-and-mouse game between the cyber-good and the cyber-bad? SmarterMSP is talking to a variety of...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New FortiNAC critical vulnerability update released
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-33299) with a CVSS score of 9.6 has been discovered in Fortinet’s FortiNAC product. This vulnerability poses a significant risk as it could allow an unauthenticated user to execute unauthorized code or commands by...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Command injection flaw in Zyxel NAS devices
Zyxel, a networking equipment manufacturer, has released urgent security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in their network-attached storage devices. CVE-2023-27992 (CVSS score: 9.8) has been declared as a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. What is the threat? The threat involves multiple vulnerabilities...
Threat Spotlight: Attackers use 15-year-old tactics to target security flaws
Attackers are quick to exploit new opportunities for attack. The reporting of the Log4J bug in December 2021, for example, is believed to have led to a 150% increase in exploit activity the following year. However, an analysis of Barracuda’s threat detection...
