The notorious financial entrepreneur William Francis Sutton Jr. (aka Willie Sutton) is famously credited with explaining his penchant for robbing banks by simply replying, “Because that’s where the money is.” T...
Guest Author: David Balaban. Extortion went cyber with the emergence of ransomware in 2006. The Archiveus Trojan broke new ground by leveraging asymmetric cryptography to lock down files in a victim’s “My Docu...
People who triple-padlock their doors while leaving their windows open are ripe for burglary (and mockery), but ridiculing those folks is plainly hypocritical when so many businesses invest vast sums in endpoin...
To say the year 2020 has seen the world become a more chaotic place must rate as one of history’s greatest understatements. If radioactive fire-breathing lizards suddenly began plummeting from the sky, it’s a s...
While the well-known adage “It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you” seems to be gaining greater traction in today’s turbulent world, it’s always been acutely on-point when applied to the challenge of cyb...
Emotet is the name of both a ransomware gang and the strain of ransomware the cybercriminals use. While Emotet remains a serious threat, their 2020 has been besmirched. They got hit with EmoCrash. Eventually Em...
No More Ransom is an initiative launched by Interpol to fight against ransomware. They offer a repository of tools and methods to combat ransomware. Their first recommendation is to follow best practices around...
October 8, 2020 is the final day that individuals impacted in a law suit against Google can raise objections. Google notified former Google+ users in August about the $7.5M class action lawsuit. This means that...
VIPRE Month Roundup: August, 2020 What happened last month? A lot of cybersecurity news! We know it is hard to keep up with the ever-changing news cycle, so we gathered this month’s biggest stories and broke th...
Email is now the most common channel for criminals to launch cyber-attacks and has become a leading cause of data breaches and financial loss. Attackers are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities in email to s...
