Tag: cybercrime
Awareness is a tried-and-true cybercrime defense mechanism
I have been writing about cybercrime for years and have witnessed the methodology and tools that criminals use to evolve. One truism about cybercrime is that it knows no boundaries. Unlike conventional crimes, where a criminal is stopped at a...
ATOs are on the rise, and MSPs can help
Recently, a catering company owner in Kettering, Ohio started receiving odd emails: a package she ordered from Amazon had been delivered, but she couldn’t remember ordering anything. Following the Amazon incident, she received an email notifying her that her life insurance premiums...
Rising data breaches require extra vigilance and awareness training
Data breaches increased by 69 percent in 2021 compared to 2020, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) in its annual report on data breaches. According to the report, the most common causes of data breaches were phishing or...
Tech Time Warp: eBay Inc. gets its start
What are your Labor Day weekend plans? Chances are they won’t prove as lucrative as those of Pierre Omidyar back in 1995, who spent his three-day weekend launching a website called AuctionWeb from his San Jose home. We now know...
Are banks doing enough to combat cybercrime?
Last week we explored the security vulnerabilities posed by banks using legacy systems and how MSPs can play a mitigation role. This week, we explore the steps banks and their security teams should be taking today to prevent the next...
