Cybersecurity & IT Insights

One of the lessons of 2020 is that you can’t take things for granted. Among the most painful things that we’ve temporarily lost is the ability to trust those closest to us.  It’s not that friends, family and co-workers want to hurt us – they don’t even know that they...

We're all looking for presents online right now, but the bad guys are looking for presence on your network. Here’s what’s happening in the world of cybersecurity in early December.  Ransomware gangs are getting faster at encrypting networks. That will make them harder...

When you’re hurriedly trying to find information on your network or install software on a PC, one thing you don’t want to see is “Access is Denied.”  Why wouldn’t an owner, CEO, or senior executive’s credentials have access to everything on your organization's...

While many of us are gearing up for a (smaller than usual) Thanksgiving celebration, hackers are still targeting emails, passwords and even videoconferencing.  Here’s what’s happening right now in the world of cybersecurity. Beware of “Site Notifications” – It seems...

There are some very convincing fraudulent emails out there.  We’ve talked about several of them – the one that pretended to be a cybersecurity training update, the one that uses a real Microsoft login prompt, and one that uses Google Forms to copy your bank login page...

New data confirms that ransomware remains a major threat for small and mid-size businesses, and extortion was taken to a new level this month – here’s what’s happening in the cybersecurity world right now. Coveware Q3 2020 Report Details Ransomware Risks Ransomware...

On the day of his assassination, Abraham Lincoln signed the act that created the Secret Service.  It wasn’t created to protect presidents, however.  It was created to combat counterfeiting – around one-third of all currency in the US was counterfeit in the 1860s. ...