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Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Have you ever conducted a tabletop exercise for your disaster recovery plan? Ransomware. I know it’s something no one wants to experience. And I see so many vulnerable networks after auditing hundreds ...

This New Ransomware Can Infect A Network In Just Minutes

Not all ransomware strains are created equally. Some are designed as slow burns that will infect a target system, expanding its reach for days, or even weeks before striking and locking your ...

Photoshop Testing Security For Images To Prevent Theft And Fakes

Deep Fakes are becoming an increasingly large problem. If you're not familiar with the term, a Deep Fake is an advanced photo or video technique in which an existing person in a ...

Mac And Android Added To GravityRAT Malware’s Targets

Malware comes in all shapes and sizes. Some strains copy and encrypt files. Others serve annoying ads. Still others work quietly in the background, mining this or that cryptocurrency using your computer's ...

WordPress Loginizer Plugin Was Automatically Updated Due To Vulnerability

WordPress tends to take a light-handed approach when it comes to managing the legions of plugins that are compatible with the most popular blogging platform on the planet. This time, however, they're ...

Coordinated Effort Underway To Take Down Trickbot Malware

Score one for the good guys. A team led by Microsoft's DCU (Digital Crimes Unit) that includes Symantec, NTT Ltd, ESET, and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs is working on something new. They ...

Adobe Patches A Number of Critical Vulnerabilities In Latest Update

If you make frequent use of Adobe products, then you'll definitely want to give priority to applying the latest security update offered by the company. It's an out of band patch that ...

Your New Data Security Model

Are you more vulnerable to data breaches than you might think? As your teams move back and forth from work from home to in office, one thing is clear—data security is getting more complicated. With those complications what do you ...

New Windows 10 Update Shows App Warnings For Malware

A great many malware strains are designed to engage quietly during a PC's startup process and then idle in the background. They are in the system logging keystrokes, taking screen shots at ...

Latest Windows 10 Update May Block Third Party Drivers

If you haven't yet installed the latest Windows 10 or Windows Server update, here's something to be aware of before you do. You may not be able to update or install some ...

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