While COVID-19 may have ground most of the world to a halt, unfortunately, we cannot say the same for hackers and cybercriminals. And with most economists predicting a global recession by the end of 2020, malicious actors are more eager than ever to capitalize on the chaos. Traditionally, one of the best ways to establish the ...
Up until about perhaps six or seven years ago, when you would go to a store like Best Buy or Fry’s to purchase either a desktop or laptop computer, everything came included in the box . . . except for one thing, which was the Microsoft suite of Office Products. Depending upon your needs, most people ...
What A Virtual- Private Network Concentrator Is As the Coronavirus continues, and no clear certainty as too when businesses will open back up again, employees will still be continuing to work from home. Of course, the security issues that surround this have made the news headlines quietly. Workers have been told at nauseum to use strong ...
As the world adapts to new ways of working due to the spread of the coronavirus, cyber criminals are proving themselves as adaptive as ever at finding innovative ways to exploit new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. These criminals are also using the threat of the virus itself to exploit our emotions and scam often well-meaning victims. It is ...
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning that hackers are increasingly targeting companies pursuing treatments for the novel Coronavirus. As a result, the FBI warned, “Now is the time to protect critical research you’re conducting.” Of course, it’s not just researchers experiencing a surge in COVID-19-related cyberattacks. Other healthcare facilities, including hospitals, testing ...
If we backtrack to December of 2019, many of the Cybersecurity pundits were already making their predictions for what the threat landscape would hold for 2020. Many had agreed that threat variants such as Ransomware, Cryptojacking, Phishing, would all continue in different forms. Another fear that was starting to take some grip revolved around potential ...
Fraudsters and APT Gangs Hit Remote Workers With Phishing, Spyware, Ransomware Cybercrime groups and nation-state hacking gangs are continuing to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to further their aims, U.K. and U.S. security agencies warn. "APT groups and cybercriminals are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as part of their cyber operations," Britain's National Cyber Security Center and the U.S. ...
Every day, there are newer threat variants coming out, and the most recent ones appear to be related to Social Engineering attacks and what is known as “Zoombombing”. This is a new techno jargon term which simply means an uninvited participant to enter into your Zoom meeting, and literally crash it. In fact, it has ...
Introduction The world today is far different than it was one month ago. For example, here in the United States, we were at all time stock market highs, and unemployment was at its lowest peak, right around 3.5%. We had the longest economic boom period, lasting about 11 years in length. But, with the advent of ...
Cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to weasel personal informational, financial data, dollars and access to systems from their victims, from consumers to healthcare organizations and supply chain companies, the FBI warned this week in a pair of alerts. For the third time in as many months, the FBI called out state-sponsored ...
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