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Survey Highlights Top SMB Priorities When Purchasing Cybersecurity Solutions

When it comes to today’s threat landscape, IT professionals can be forgiven for muttering their favored imprecations, followed by a frustrated, “Now what?” The current onslaught of cybersecurity exploits target...

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Carnival Discloses a Ransomware Attack

It has not been the best year for Carnival Cruise Line. Being the largest cruise line operator in the world means they’re a prime target for cyber-criminals. In March, the company disclosed a potential data bre...

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Cybersecurity Tips Help Law Firms Reduce Risk

Securing email is essential Email is the backbone of modern business communications, and the most popular digital medium in the world with 3.7 billion users sending 269 billion emails every day. Unfortunately, ...

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Massive High Profile Twitter Attack – Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and Others!

On July 15th, several Twitter accounts were hacked into and then posted a links to crypto scams. (Image via CNET) According to engadget, targets weren’t exclusively celebrities. Other accounts belonging to Coi...

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Vigilante(s?) Troll Emotet Malware

Suspicious Link, a malware research Twitter personality who follows suspicious links, tweeted about a recent discovery. Someone is replacing Emotet payloads with gifs of James Franco. To explain this phenomenon...

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How Law Firms Can Defend Against Accidental Emails

The sad truth is, most of us have experienced a Homer Simpson moment when we realize we’ve mistakenly sent an email to the wrong person. It’s pretty much inevitable, really, when you consider email is the backb...

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900 Pulse Secure VPN Servers Exposed

Russian-speaking hacker forums have a list of a list of plaintext usernames, passwords, and IP addresses. ZDNet along with multiple sources in the cyber-security community verified the list’s authenticity. The ...

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Reduce Business Risk with Security Awareness Training

It’s a safe bet that when Benjamin Franklin coined his famous maxim, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” he wasn’t presciently addressing today’s IT professionals (he was clever, but not that cle...

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VIPRE Week Roundup: May 22, 2020

What happened this week? A lot of cybersecurity news! We know it is hard to keep up with the ever-changing news cycle, so we gathered this week’s biggest stories and broke them down into bite-sized reads....

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Company Hit by 2nd Ransomware Attack in 7 Months

As you may recall, Pitney Bowes suffered a ransomware attack from the Ryuk gang back in October 2019. There was some good news at the time in that customer data was safe after the ransomware incident. Even thou...