When it comes to security, what are your biggest problems?
Today’s climate unfortunately has not gotten much better when it comes to cyberattacks and data breaches. Regardless of your industry—healthcare, financial, service, or manufacturing—your network is vulnerable to attacks that nation states (or even 12 year old kids!) may be implementing off of our shores and out of our nation’s jurisdiction.
Given the sheer number of criminals drawn to penetrating vulnerabilities in networks, cybersecurity has not gotten easier in 2019 (and many experts believe this insecurity may continue to manifest in our organizations for years to come).
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Apparently, there is at least one piece looking to fetch more than a million dollars.
The subject? A computer infected with six strains of high-profile malware. Think WannaCry and BlackEnergy here for examples. And this art—a laptop sitting on a table gap-locked from the rest of the internet (a techy way of saying the computer is in a vacuum to prevent the ransomware from escaping).
In a project called “Persistence of Chaos”, artist Guo O. Dong, with some cybersecurity consultants, created a Samsung Blue Netbook from 2008, running Windows XP Service Pack 3. It features six of the most prolific malware to date. These malware have been responsible for over 95 BILLION dollars in financial damage to businesses and organizations worldwide.
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Why seasonal employees can unknowingly leave companies to a broad range of cyberattacks.
It’s the end of May and summer is just around the corner. If you’re like many businesses, you might be getting ready for a slew of interns or summer workers filing the ranks of new team members around the office. It’s definitely nice seeing new faces, but with those faces might come some new security holes.
You see, employees represent one of the biggest threats to your network cybersecurity.
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Truth of the matter—there are way more job openings than experienced candidates today.
Cybersecurity jobs are abounding. If you go on Indeed, LinkedIn, or some other flavor of job site, you won’t have a hard time finding openings for cybersecurity positions—some looking for newbies to the field (maybe those that have some education in cybersecurity) and others looking for years of experience.
What employers are finding? Security jobs are going unfilled. Unfilled to the point that many big employers are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. In today’s cybersecurity departments, a lot of those tech companies that have been actively recruiting people in cybersecurity-related positions for years, there simply aren’t enough people with real world knowledge. What many companies, including the likes of IBM and other hi-tech companies are finding is that no experience is required.
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Think back ten or twenty years. What were parent’s biggest fears for their kids? Growing up well over 20 years ago, I remember my mom was afraid of drugs. Maybe kidnapping or taking candy from strangers, but mostly my parents didn’t have to worry about all of the things—mostly technology related—that parents and families have to think about today.
While the internet is hard to imagine living without in 2019, it has the potential to be harmful if we’re not careful. Today, as summer starts to hit schools across the country, I want to walk through some tips to keep your kids safe online (while they have more time potentially on their phones and computers).
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Let’s face it. We all make mistakes.
Even clicking on a malicious link in a phishing email can happen to the best of us. Sometimes it’s because we’re in a huge hurry and overlook double checking everything before making a click, or sometimes the phishers are exceptionally clever with their scam.
Whatever the reason for your user clicking on that link or email attachment or replying with sensitive information they should have thought another second before sending, we all make mistakes. Today I want to walk through some steps to take after clicking on that phishing scam.
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