Category: Security
The woes of password management
If you’re like anybody who uses computers today, you’re dealing with passwords. I alone have more than 58 just for the websites I use on a regular basis. That doesn’t include any hardware passwords, Wi-Fi passwords, computer logins, or clients’...
GDPR Promises to Forever Change How Data Gets Managed
Given the rise of both Donald Trump and Theresa May, there’s never been more focus on regulations in recent memory. But the regulation that is starting to loom largest in the minds of business executives emanates from Brussels rather than...
Threat Watch: Resume Files containing Advanced Persistent Threats
As cybercriminals become more duplicitous by the day, businesses and individuals alike need to be more aware than ever of their digital surroundings. One example of this was recently highlighted on the Barracuda blog: Resume files containing Advanced Persistent Threats...
Growing IT security fatigue bodes well for MSSPs
The size of the opportunity for managed security service providers (MSSPs) has always been constrained by one dominant factor. Far too many IT organizations believe they can adequately defend their organizations despite all evidence to the contrary. But, a new report...
Ransomware is now a $1 billion industry
A new ransomware report from IBM Security finds that nearly one in two business executives have experienced ransomware attacks in the workplace, and 70 percent of those executives said their company has paid to regain access to encrypted data. In...
Calculating the cost of a ransomware attack
On average, it takes an organization 33 man hours to recover from a ransomware attack. That’s the benchmark identified by a survey of 500 IT security professionals conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of SentinelOne, a...
Ransomware’s growing impact on healthcare security and HIPAA compliance
Ransomware skyrocketed in 2016, with the FBI reporting an average of 4,000 ransomware attacks per day — a 300-percent increase since 2015. This has been especially bad news for healthcare organizations, which have been hit hard by this type of...
Dyn DDoS attack false fodder for anti-cloud crowd
There’s no doubt that you heard about, and were probably affected by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on domain registrar Dyn last week. It was a devastating attack that took down services like Spotify and Netflix along with...
MSPs need to be prepared for rising wave of DDoS attacks
Now it’s been conclusively demonstrated how susceptible even the largest of organizations are to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. At the core of these attacks are multiple forms of malware that have spread to millions of devices connected to...
Ransomware moves into the cloud
One of the assumptions many people make about cloud services is that someone is responsible for maintaining security of the environment. That’s true as far as the service itself is concerned, but any data loaded onto those cloud services is...
