Phishing Schemes and What to Know About Them
What is the first thing we all learn when accessing the internet? From the earliest days of internet communication, you learn that not everyone tells the truth in cyberspace. You can probably rattle a few of the “playground rules” of the internet off the top of your head. Continue Reading
How to Be Cyber-Secure When Learning through Online Schools
Learning is an essential part of growing as a person. From students in school to career training, it’s important to continue to build your knowledge and skills. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, in-person learning has become impossible. When considered, this has wiped out many types of self-advancement. Continue Reading
What to Do If Hackers Try to Phish You
We recently published an article on how to respond if your computer has been exposed to malware. Every professional needs to have their version of this process. We are all at risk of targeting from hackers or automated hacking programs. This is not just true of malware infection. Phishing is just as common, and often used as a method to trick professionals into opening or downloading malware files. Continue Reading
7 Types of Technology that Prevent Social Hacking
Social hacking is a dangerous trend that has always been a part of the criminal community. From the dawn of civilization, there have been con artists. These are people willing to collect information, lie, and steal from the people they lie to. Continue Reading
Top 8 Signs That You’re Being Phished
During the coronavirus lockdown and work-at-home revolution, phishing is a bigger risk than ever before. Phishing spawns from the dark underbelly of business communication. Anywhere there is remote communication, there is a “gap” that can be manipulated by hackers for some advantage. Continue Reading
What Should You Do when You Find Malware?
Discovering signs of malware calls for prompt, effective action. You need to get rid of the problem and deal with its consequences. Avoid panic. Proceed a step at a time, and you’ll have the best chance of restoring normal operations with minimal losses. Take the following five steps, moving quickly but systematically. Continue Reading
6 Tactics to Protect Remote Servers from Social Engineering Hacks
Taking your team remote is a bold move for any business. It necessitates secure, remotely available servers and resources so that remote team members can connect. With recent events pushing many teams rapidly into all-remote conditions, it’s important to take your security steps in stride. Continue Reading
5 Reasons to Never Pay Ransomware Demands
In the last few years there have been a lot of news articles and upsetting stories about companies and their websites ravaged by the ransomware trend. While the tactic isn’t exactly new, this type of encryption-based malware has become an alarmingly popular trend among the hacker communities that target both businesses and private computers. The oh-so-clever idea is not just to do damage like worms that simply delete files or spyware that silently steals data. Instead, hackers stand a chance to directly make a little (or a lot) of cash off their victims by holding their precious files hostage and demanding a crypto-currency ransom. Continue Reading
The 7 Types of Social Hacking
The 90% Dilemma
Human error accounts for 90% of all business data breaches. In study after study, we find that firewalls and monitoring and encryption can only do so much. But 90% of data breaches are primarily caused by employees and sometimes customers getting phished, hacked, and fooled. Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigation Report found this, and Willis Towers Watson consultancy found this by examining insurance claims. A study done by the Kasperky cybersecurity firm found the same result. Every time we study the issue of security breaches, human error and social hacking victims make up 90% of the incidents. Continue Reading
19 Examples of Lines Hackers use for Social Engineering Attacks – Part 2 of 2
“This video is soooo funny. Just click the link and you’ll see what I’m talking about. OMG so cute!”
A personal contact approach is often used when hackers just want you to click the link. Many people don’t think twice about clicking a funny “youtube” link from a friend or relative to lift their spirits at work. But if the email address is unusual, don’t. Besides, why aren’t they sharing it with you on Twitter like usual? Continue Reading