Category Archives: Cybersecurity

Mississippi School District Paying a Company to Help it Recover Files After Ransomware Attack. The Yazoo County School District in Mississippi has chosen to pay a private company $300,000 to regain access to encrypted files. The district became aware of the ransomware attack on Monday, October 12. They took their IT systems offline and solicited […]

The transformation opportunities in IoT-enabled enterprises are massive – but to reap the benefits of transformation, you need industry-leading security that reliably protects IoT. Conventional network security approaches aren’t equipped to address IoT devices’ unique security challenges. They fall short, only addressing one aspect of the security challenges brought on by the huge influx of […]

Cyber Command’s TrickBot Disruption Efforts are “Precedent-Setting”. US Cyber Command’s efforts to disrupt the TrickBot botnet mark “the first public, obvious operation to stop someone’s cyber capability before it could be used against us to cause even greater harm,” according to Columbia University cyber conflict researcher Jason Healey. Cyber Command severed communication between infected machines […]

Studies reveal that up to 90% of Android-based smartphones, and tablets are vulnerable to hackers, frauds, and other malefactors. The reason is in rare security system updates. You can’t protect yourself from the Internet without disconnecting the device from it physically. However, critical data safety organization and maintenance are among the main tasks for everyone […]

In this day and age, cyberattacks are inevitable. Regardless of the numerous defensive systems that we set up to protect ourselves, our businesses and infrastructure will always be at risk. Having a strong incident response plan is as important as building a defensive system to prevent the attack. Want to know if your incident response […]