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Cybersecurity: Myths And Assumptions About Ransomware

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Ransomware is currently the greatest cybersecurity concern for organizations because it is also the most profitable tactic for tech criminals. The cost to those victimized by ransomware extends much farther than just the ransom. Clean-up and recovery…

Cyber Security Threats: Ransomware

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When it comes to cybersecurity threats, ransomware is one of the scariest. Ransomware blocks access to all or parts of your system until a demand for money is met. Ransomware is most commonly spread through phishing emails containing malicious…

Cybersecurity Concerns In Bringing Employees Back To The Office

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Cybersecurity has been a major concern since the rush to get employees set up to work remotely at the beginning of the pandemic. The staggered return to offices is now creating additional cybersecurity risks, but also an opportunity for CIOs and IT…

Cybersecurity: Myths And Assumptions About Ransomware

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Cyber Security Threats: Ransomware

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Cybersecurity Concerns In Bringing Employees Back To The Office

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Verkada Breach

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Established in 2016, Verkada sells a full suite of physical security monitoring tools that will watch your everyday spaces with devices like indoor and outdoor cameras, door entry regulations, and tools for movement, heat, and sound. The hardware…

Hafnium Targeting Exchange Servers

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As of March 2, 2021, Microsoft uncovered several zero-day activities, that currently are being utilized on multiple versions of Microsoft Exchange Server (MES) that are being targeted for attacks. We can see with the incidents that have occurred, the…

Silver Sparrow – Apple Silicon Mac’s Questionable Malware

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At the beginning of February, investigators have uncovered a ton of macOS malware that utilized a Launch Agent to produce its existence, like several additional models of malware. What became more of concern to the investigators was that the malware…

VMware ESXi vSphere Client (HTML5)

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VMware vCenter Server updates address remote code execution vulnerability in the vSphere Client (CVE-2021-21972) Various exposures in VMware ESXi as well as vSphere Client (HTML5) have been clandestinely notified to VMware. Revises are accessible to…

Why USB Devices are Vulnerable

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Did You Know... USBs are an extremely successful instrument for attack. We all use them and they come in many different shapes and forms; we use them to store or transport business and personal information, we also use them to charge our phones…

The Cost of a Breach

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The Cost of Cyber Crime Target, Equifax, Adobe, eBay, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Twitter, Marriott, MGM Resorts, Garmin. What do all of these businesses have in common? They have all been victims of cyber-attacks. In 2019, The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint…

Twitter Security Breach

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On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, Twitter detected a security incident and took immediate action. The attack targeted certain Twitter employees through social engineering. The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their…

Security Concerns and Exploits (July 2020)

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Palo Alto Networks Most of us spent the 4th of July holiday celebrating with family and friends and enjoying our extended weekends. Others spent the the 4th of July sleuthing around creating exploitable vulnerabilities for two commonly used…

Security Tool Effectiveness

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It's time to validate the effectiveness of your cybersecurity solutions and here's why. A recent study showed that only a small percentage of attacks generate alerts and most intrusions go undetected due to misconfigured security tools. "Due to the…

Back to the Office

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Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to the office we go. Are you ready? For months now we have been talking about the pandemic; about the risks of contracting the virus and about the dangers of how quickly it spreads to infect other unsuspecting victims. As we…

Phishing Threats Are Rising Dramatically

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Bad actors are taking advantage of the drastic, almost overnight shift to working from home. In a recent survey by Check Point and Dimensional Research, it found that 71% of the 411 Security and IT professionals assessed have noticed an increase in…

Pandemic Response vs. Cybersecurity Best Practices

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Over the past few months, we've all witnessed the unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic. We've watched closely as our local, state and federal leaders work to contain its spread in order to save lives. In the cybersecurity realm, observations have…

Not Your Typical Patch Tuesday

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On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Microsoft fixed 113 security vulnerabilities in its various Windows operating systems and related software. Three are actively being exploited. Two others have been detailed to the public prior to the release. Nineteen were…

‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom’s Password Problems

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SecKC members’ creation of zWarDial has found a workaround to evade Zoom’s attempts to block automated meeting scans. Trent Lo, a security professional and co-founder of SecKC, and fellow SecKC members recently created zWarDial and discovered that…

A Message From the CEO

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With the increase in concern regarding the coronavirus nationally and locally, I wanted to share with you that RAVENii will be implementing their Pandemic Policy effective Monday, March 16, 2020. We have been closely monitoring the information being…

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