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Cyber Incident Response Is a Leadership Problem
Part One: Why Incidents Feel Chaotic Before Anyone Touches a Keyboard When most business owners think about a cyber incident, they picture the middle of it. Screens flashing. Systems down. IT scrambling. Phones ringing. Someone saying, “We’re working on it,” ...
Cyber Trends
Agentic AI: The Cool Tech That Could Cost You Big If You’re Not Careful
If you’ve heard of AI that can do stuff for you (not just answer questions), that’s called agentic AI. It’s powerful, exciting, and… legally risky if you don’t pay attention. Here’s the quick and practical version: what it is, why ...
The New Spiderman Is Coming for Your Business
And He Does Not Care How Good Your Antivirus Is Picture this. You’re sitting at your desk, coffee in hand, feeling pretty good about the day. Revenue looks solid. Your team is productive. IT hasn’t bothered you in weeks, which you assume means everything is fine. Then ...
“Grandpa, I need help!” — Why Vishing Just Became Everyone’s Problem
Vishing Attacks Are Up 442%—And They’re Coming for Your Family and Your CEO There’s a new scam in town—and it’s wearing a familiar voice. You’ve probably heard of phishing. But now there’s vishing—voice phishing—and according to CrowdStrike, it’s up 442% ...
Business Resilience
Why Your Team Is Busy, Exhausted, and Still Not Getting Results
It’s January, so let’s talk about something most business owners won’t admit out loud. Your team is working hard. Really hard. And somehow, at the end of the quarter, the big things you cared about still didn’t happen. You had goals. You had initiatives. You probably even had a slide deck. And yet here you are, staring at the ...
Part 2: Coffee or a Crisis: The CEO’s Choice in Cybersecurity
Last time we looked at why tabletop exercises matter and how they can reveal the cracks business leaders don’t notice until ...
The Silent IT Risk That Can Wreck Your Company Value: Tribal Knowledge
When CEOs and CFOs think about cybersecurity risk, they think about hackers, ransomware, and data breaches. What they do not think about is the way their own IT teams operate—and how that internal process can make or break the company ...
Security Best Practices
Your Security Program Will Fail If You Do These 5 Things
Most CEOs and CFOs believe their organization is reasonably secure. You have invested in IT. You have tools in place. You have people responsible for cybersecurity. That confidence feels earned, but in many organizations it is not backed by proof. Security programs rarely ...
Why You Keep Adding Security Tools but Still Feel Unsafe
If you run a business today, you already know how overwhelming security can feel. A new scam shows up in the news, so you add a new tool. A software vendor tells you their product will keep you safe, so you subscribe. ...
Your Cyber Budget Is Growing, But So Is Your Risk
You walk into the office. The lights are on. The coffee’s brewing. Everything looks normal. Until it isn’t. Your laptop won’t boot. Your cloud drives are empty. Every desktop screen in the building is showing the same message: “Your files ...
More Articles
About Half A Million Credit Cards Found On Dark Web
Researchers from Group-IB monitor the Dark Web and have recently reported the appearance of nearly half a million credit card records available for sale. Each record is valued at more than ...
New Trojan Malware Steals Passwords From Chrome
If you use Google's Chrome web browser, there's a new threat you should be aware of. A new trojan targeting Windows-based machines will attempt to steal passwords stored in the Chrome browser. ...
New Malware Can Spy On You In Scary Ways
There's a new strain of malware in the wild. It is targeting Android devices and disguised as an innocuous chat app. Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered it in two different apps ...
Phishing Emails Are Becoming Even Harder To Identify
According to data collected by Microsoft, phishing emails accounted for 0.62 percent of all inbox receipts in September 2019. That's up from 0.31 percent just one year prior to that. The increase ...
Ransomware Is Getting Smarter. Are You?
One prolific ransomware virus variant is getting smarter. That’s right—one particular strain of the Ryuk ransomware is now working smarter than first expected. It has a decision process that doesn’t wait for large files to get encrypted. Instead, it encrypts ...
FBI Considers Aging App To Be A Counterintelligence Threat
FaceApp is in the news again, and as before, not for a good reason. Several months ago, watchdog groups around the world sounded the alarm about the Russian-made app, which raised curious ...
Be Careful Holiday E-cards Could Contain Malware Or Viruses
There's a war on Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it's taking a very different form than what commonly gets reported in the news media. This war is being waged by hackers and scammers, ...
Adobe Acquired Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach
Recently, the Magento Marketplace was acquired by Adobe and suffered a breach that exposed a limited amount of user data to an unknown third party. When Adobe discovered evidence of the breach, ...
Watch Out For Large Amounts of Scams This Holiday Season
The 2019 Holiday Season is officially upon us, and unfortunately, that means that scammers around the world are ramping up for another busy season. Deals are abound on Black Friday and Cyber ...
Security Issues Found In Several VNC Applications
Microsoft RDP has its share of problems. That simple truth has sparked the rise of a number of open-source VNC (Virtual Network Computing) applications, which allow a user to remotely control another ...
New Cryptomining Malware Targets Windows Computers
Since October 2018, Microsoft engineers have been tracking a new strain of malware specifically designed to target Windows machines. As malware goes, this one isn't particularly dangerous. It's not designed to mass ...
Google’s Cloud Print May Be Discontinued
Are you a fan of Google's Cloud Print service? It's fantastic because it allows you to print from anywhere to anywhere, which makes it utterly invaluable. Like so many great services Google ...
