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Ransomware: Protect Your Data Backups, Too

Ransomware continues to be a growing and increasingly dangerous threat to businesses. The numbers are ominous: Every 11 seconds a business experiences a ransomware attack, according to current research from Veeam. Most ...
Security Boulevard

Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups

After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups: Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, ...
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Ransomware’s Next Target: Backup Data

Ransomware is a big business today and getting bigger all the time. It is so profitable that organized crime and state actors have gotten into it in a big way. It is ...
Security Boulevard

How to Protect Your Business from Ransomware

After a series of ransomware attacks hit cities last year, finally some good news: Las Vegas was able to stop a ransomware cyber-attack in its tracks. When the cyber-attack was detected, the ...
5 2020 Cybersecurity Resolutions for SMBs

5 2020 Cybersecurity Resolutions for SMBs

During our 2019 SMB IT Security Report, we learned that small and mid-sized businesses still struggle to implement network security solutions. SMBs continue to identify budget constraints as the main barrier when ...

On Security Tokens

Mark Risher of Google extols the virtues of security keys: I'll say it again for the people in the back: with Security Keys, instead of the *user* needing to verify the site, ...

Man fried over 50 college computers with weaponized USB stick

Vishwanath Akuthota's USB stick contained an unusually destructive payload. The post Man fried over 50 college computers with weaponized USB stick appeared first on The State of Security ...

The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – US Federal Privacy Law, WhatsApp Google Drive Warning, Improved Security for Instagram

This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for September 3, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was ...

Inside the Judicial Challenges of When Ransomware Strikes a City

Earlier this year, the City of Atlanta suffered a ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems. The attack affected more than one-third of Atlanta’s 424 essential programs, close to 30 percent of ...
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Some of the Best Ways to Lose Your System Data

By: Nick Pegley Have you ever thought about the best ways to be negatively affected by a disaster, get hacked, or otherwise part with data stored on your computers? Here are some ...