Rethinking Your Cybersecurity
Stay updated on cyber attacks worldwide. Explore expert insights, threat trends, and prevention strategies to protect your business from evolving cybersecurity risks.
What compels your click?
By now most of us recognize obvious spam emails that invite you to view celebrity gossip news or lure you in via offers of free travel or apps. We know that these sites are just a path to disappointment and headache, with quick clicks that lead your PC down an internet dark alley toward viruses or ransomware.
Cybercrime today represents a threat with a scale and persistence that hasnt been encountered before. Despite the widespread threat of cybercrime, many people and businesses remain ignorant of the true risks they face and what they can do to combat them. Gaining a greater understanding of the types of cyber crimes can help one understand the importance of cyber security for their business.
The WannaCry attacks reached a record high in this past week and the root cause of the chink in the Cybersecurity amour can be traced primarily back to lack of active Patch Management. Active Patch Managementreduces attack surface & improves security posture. Reinforce this essential link in your holistic Cybersecurity chain.
If your organization relies on devices, programs, or systems that temporarily store information during processing, you might be at risk of spooling attacks. So, what is spooling in cyber security? When spooling occurs, a perpetrator can gain access to sensitive information within your organization’s networks. Read our blog to learn more about spooling. (more…)
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming rampant as more companies provide more of their services online. As you hear of reports about surges in DDoS attacks, you may be wondering how to stop a DDoS attack from affecting your site. Read on to learn more. (more…)
Modern cyberattack techniques are classified into two broad categories—active and passive attacks. Passive attacks often preempt active ones. While hackers often use a combination of the two, sometimes within a single attack, some distinct differences set these methods apart. (more…)
Security threats can cause significant and irreparable damage to the finances and reputation of an organization. No company should take these threats lightly. It only takes one vulnerability or lapse to destroy everything a business worked hard to build from the ground up.
Companies always need to be on the lookout for cyber attacks — regardless of their size and industry. But what are the most dangerous types of cyber attacks? And based on your industry, what is the most common type of cyber attack? Read on to learn more about what you should be most worried about, why, and how to mitigate all risks facing your company.
Ecommerce killed the retail star. Trends show that e-commerce is quickly overtaking traditional shopping models, with 2023 predicted to have 300 million online shoppers in the US alone. This statistic is excellent news for the industry and even better news for cybercriminals. There are types of e-commerce security that will become necessary for any business wishing to engage with clients online.
If you’re a new or developing business in the e-commerce sector, congratulations! Online selling and shopping are seeing perennial growth; one study of overall global market trends predicts that e-commerce will overtake a whopping 22 percent of all global sales by 2023, up from the 12.2 percent it commanded just five years prior in 2018. However, all that progress comes with its risks as well, and security tools in e-commerce will only become more important as the industry grows.