Hackers using ransomware to extort money from victims used to have a fairly straightforward playbook: gain access to the victims data, encrypt it and promise to decrypt it for the ransom. That by itself caused all kinds of havoc. From Laporte, Indiana to Baltimore, Maryland, companies and municipalities found themselves scrambling to figure out how
It seldom happens that the dynamic world around us witnesses a day without any activities. Particularly, in the world of cybersecurity, it is almost impossible for nothing significant to happen in a day. But how to keep abreast of all these anti-phishing solutions we must adopt against adversaries on a daily basis? As mind-boggling as
If you’re a retired U.S. citizen, there’s a pretty good chance you collect monthly Social Security benefits. And if you do, there’s something you should know. Hackers are coming after your money. From an article on the AARP website, “Crooks are turning to email as a way to steal Social Security benefits, often including official-looking
The cyber-world is the epitome of vibrancy and change. Some new technological advancement or out of the box hacking scheme always makes it to the headlines. Just when we think that innovations are at the pinnacle of uniqueness, there appears another critically thought and unique technological development. Keeping abreast of these many updates isn’t humanly
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn’t. In that regard, hackers never stop evolving and coming up with clever new ways to trick victims into clicking. And it seems they’ve done it again. The trick of course is to make a malicious URL look legitimate. In that
In a shocking development, many people last week suffered from massive ransomware attacks all over the world. Several precautions are taken by users these days as awareness about cybercrime grows, but there are always new ways discovered by attackers to steal more information. Although millions of dollars are being spent by government agencies to rectify
If you’re responsible for email security at your company, then you’re acutely aware of the role that social engineering plays in effective phishing attacks. Social engineering is not a technology hack, it’s psychology hack. It doesn’t exploit technological weakness, it exploits human weakness. You can be sure the next phishing attack launched upon your organization
Yet another exciting time in cyberspace, last week was spent by most of the enterprises trying to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities and various sources of zero-day attack present in much of the software of some of the top organizations around the world. Microsoft was finally able to send a patch for the
The newest Star Wars movie due out this week, The Rise of Skywalker, could just as easily be titled The Rise of Hackers, because they’re using the release of the over-hyped movie to target fans with a phishing attack. As reported in SC Magazine, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just being released into
Cybersecurity or Internet Security is of utmost importance in the digital world today. It is a body of technology, expertise, norms, and processes designed to safeguard devices, data, programs, and networks from being attacked or accessed without authorization. Cybersecurity is essential to promote as all the important officialdoms, be it the government, military, defense, or