The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2010, 2011, and 2013. The House of Representative’s Science, Space and Technology Committee…
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What can you learn from DNC's recent hack?
Two different hacker groups were on the DNC servers for months, undetected. It is assumed that the hack originated from a phishing campaign with a malware payload. CrowdStrike was used after the fact…
Even Mark Zuckerberg has Password Fatigue
Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were recently breached by hackers going by the name of OurMine Team. Yes, we are talking about THE Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and Chief Executive…
EDR | EndPoint Detection and Response
Why do breaches continue to happen? Companies are spending billions of dollars to prevent data breaches, yet they are still occurring every day. In all of the recent major breaches, forensic evidence…
Ransomware and Data Theft
It is only a matter of time until we start hearing the news stories of ransomware attackers combining data theft into the equation. Currently, the only stories about threats and data have been highly…
Ransomware 2.0: What's Next?
In 2015, security experts were predicting ransomware would be huge for cybercriminals in 2016. The majority had no idea it would be this huge.
Employees: The Weakest Link in Cybersecurity
From day one, we have said that employees are the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain for an organization. In a recent webcast, Michael Gelles and Robert McFadden of Deloitte Consulting LLP…
FBI Releases Article on Ransomware
You know things are getting serious when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) releases an article on a situation. On Friday (April 29th, 2016), the FBI released an article titled “Incidents of…
2016 Cyber Security Statistics
The first quarter of 2016 has seen a significant rise is cyberattacks, and unfortunately, the forecast doesn’t look much better. Banking Trojans and Ransomware have dominated the cyber security stats…