Verizon Report: Ransomware Continues to Rise
You were right if it felt like ransomware attacks were all over the headlines over the past year. According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware attacks were up more than the last [...]
BlackCat Ransomware: Here’s What to Know
Ransomware remains a massive cybersecurity challenge for organizations everywhere, with costs expected to rise from $20 billion in 2021 to $265 billion by 2031, according to estimates by Cybersecurity Ventures. This is a significant increase [...]
The Latest Facebook Phishing Attack: Here’s What to Know
As cyberattacks continue to rise, phishing remains one of the most prevalent ways for attackers to break past small and medium business (SMB) defenses and compromise an organization. According to the Verizon Data Breach Report [...]
Report: More than $6.9B Lost to Cyber Crimes in 2021
If you felt like the headlines in 2021 were dominated by cyberattacks and cybercrime, you were right. The data is in, and 2021 was a record year for cybercrime on every front, with $6.9 billion [...]
QR Codes: The Risks, Benefits, and Real-World Applications
Over the past two years, we have seen a fast rise in the usage of QR codes to help customers quickly access web pages on the go. This has opened the door for new ways [...]
What is a Cybersecurity Maturity Model?
Cyberattacks have increased exponentially over the past few months, hitting businesses of all sizes and industries. Damages globally are estimated to have reached $6 trillion in 2021 and are on track to rise to $10.5 [...]
Why Companies Are Moving to a Zero Trust Model of Cyber Security
When it comes to cyber security, one of the biggest buzzwords circulating the market is "Zero Trust." Zero Trust is a principle that starts from an assumption that nothing can be trusted — be it [...]
Plan Your Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 End of Support Today
As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. This is true even for systems we use to run business-critical and mission-critical workloads, such as Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. Microsoft [...]
Report: Nearly Every Enterprise Hit by Successful Cyber Incident
You only have to turn on the TV or open a newspaper to see that cyberattacks have been on the rise over the last number of years. However, according to a recent report, the impact [...]
Log4j Exploit: What SMBs Should Know
At the end of 2021, news emerged of a new vulnerability in Log4j, a Java library that underlies many of the world's applications. Since then, this security flaw has been widely recognized as one of [...]