In the past several months the infamous Dyre Banking Trojan has gone silent with security researchers reporting actual new infections dropping to single digits. Researchers suspect that a raid on a…

New data from the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Report shows that businesses have a one-hour window to detect a data breach and contain it. After that, they risk losing control of their network. The term…

Geronimo !!! Endpoints have become the new prized possession in the eye of the cyber-criminal. Just like normal domain users, once an endpoint is compromised, an attacker is free to roam about the…

The Verge recently published an article, announcing that a Los Angeles hospital was the victim of a data breach using ransomware. In most cases, a ransomware hacker charges several hundred dollars,…

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has become the latest victim of a ransomware attack, causing them to cease normal day-to-day operations. Hackers took the medical center’s system hostage over a…

Vtech was hacked in December 2015 by a group claiming they wanted to teach the company a lesson. The “data” gathered in the hack included photos and voice recordings from Vtech devices of 6.4 million…

If it ain't broke, don't fix it... Is the most common response I get, whenever I ask IT administrators and executives why they don't patch their systems. The funny thing is that the response is…

The latest Government Security Breaches Survey found that nearly three-quarters of small organizations reported a security breach in the last year (2015) which is a 13% increase from the 2013 and…

If you read this blog regularly, you’ve seen a few posts which mention ‘software vulnerabilities’, especially on browsers. We all take browsers for granted and use them every day for social…