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The need to be “cyber-secure” is making things more complicated and costly for small and mid-sized businesses, yet the cost to comply with increasing cybersecurity requirements is far FAR less than the risk of a... Read More

It’s not the same as Pi Day, I get it. That happens once a year. When you’re a hacker, though, EVERY day could be PII day. And that is NOT a good thing. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that... Read More

You’ve probably seen it on a TV show or in a movie. A couple of people, typically dressed in khakis and polos, carry some sort of computer equipment into an office and convince the receptionist that they’ve been... Read More

Wouldn’t you like to receive gifts and discounts all the time? We all would! The reality is that our human love of gifts and discounts and deals is something cybercriminals find easy to exploit. Our human curiosity... Read More

Yes, another “jargon” word – BEC, or Business Email Compromise, is a cyberattack where bad actors (hackers) pretend to be legitimate people with legitimate business email addresses – YOUR business email... Read More

The dark web brings to mind images of malicious agents sneaking around online in search of illegal drugs, personal information, and the newest ransomware software – and those images are all, unfortunately, correct.... Read More

Sobering – and scary – to realize that the rise in ransomware attacks in 2021 is as big as the prior five years COMBINED. Wow. The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2008 – 2022 was finally... Read More

Have you heard the joke about the cybercriminals who escaped the scene of the crime? They ransomware. It’s a topic that has dominated headlines with high-profile attacks demonstrating how cybercrime has... Read More

Email fraud keeps getting worse. More prevalent, more insidious. More sneaky. The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) logged a whopping 241,206 complaints in the four-and-a-half-year period ending December 2021, with... Read More