Weekly blog articles covering current, critical cybersecurity topics to help the world become more aware and more secure.
CyberHoot has been shown to improve customer retention for MSPs. It lowers the cost of supporting clients through fewer security incidents, better product training, and educational phish testing. We know it works because MSPs tell us emails to support asking “Is this a Phish?” or “Is this an Attack?” go away. Start a 30 day free trial and month-to-month forever afterwards.
Hackers (and jilted lovers) are transferring money to themselves using your phone’s cash app (Paypal, Zelle, Cash App) to transfer funds out of your bank account.
In the dynamic realm of cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as a game-changer, especially for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). This blog delves into how AI is reshaping threat detection and response, offering a new edge to cybersecurity strategies.
P2P payment scams are escalating, exposing people to advanced social engineering tactics resulting in significant financial losses.
2024 is off to a great start, however, Small to Medium sized Businesses need to proactively address their cybersecurity program development as soon as possible. 2023 was a banner year for hacker attacks and this has only encouraged more and more hackers to enter the fray. The time is ripe for everyone to batten down the hatches and training and test their employees to build their cyber literacy skills.
Navigating the Cybersecurity Risks of AI Assistants in Video Conferencing Silent Eavesdroppers: As AI Digital Assistants seamlessly integrate into popular video conferencing platforms, a concerning trade-off emerges between convenience and …
AI Digital Assistants in platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom raise data privacy concerns, risking exposure of regulated, intellectual, or personal information. Despite claims of de-identifying sensitive data, significant risks like exposing proprietary information remain underappreciated.
Passkeys provide better authentication for end users than traditional passwords which they seek to replace. They are based upon public and private cryptography, are resilient to phishing and hacker password database theft (since the private keys aren’t stored on the server or website), and represent an easier mechanism to identify users into online systems.
A recent breach at 23andme resulted in the theft of immutable and irreplaceable data – our DNA! Companies with such critical data must take every precaution to limit the data they have become caretakers of, from theft my malicious actors. In this case, 23andme has lost our DNA! This needs to be a serious criminal offence that is punished with significant consequences.
Understanding and Protecting Against Telegram App Scams Unraveling the Dark Side of Telegram: While the messaging app offers a seamless communication experience, users face many dangers. Dive into this article …
The Telegram App provides great ways for users to communicate with one another, however it also enables scammers to attack us in novel ways. This article outlines three common ways hackers use telegram to exploit unsuspecting users for their money.
Hackers have evolved into snitches leveraging recent SEC legislation which requires companies to disclose within 4 days that they have been hacked and hit with ransomware. When Meridian did not disclose to the SEC they had been hacked, the Hacker group “BlackCat” filed a complaint with the SEC informing them they had evidence that Meridian had been hacked.
Hackers are hi-jacking websites and hiding malware in Google Ads to target unsuspecting users with malware. Users simply visit the formerly safe and always legitimate looking websites and are presented with fake downloads, malware, and other nasty surprises.
The SEC has Strengthened Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements – What you Need to Know Over the last two years, the SEC has enhanced cybersecurity disclosure rules for publicly traded companies. Learn …
For the past 2 years the SEC has embarked on strengthening cybersecurity disclosure requirements at publicly traded companies. This article summarizes the changes that have come into effect and what all companies, whether publicly traded or not, should be considering in the face of a cybersecurity incident or preparing to avoid them.
A Written Information Security Plan is not meant to a bureaucratic policy collecting dust on the book shelf, but rather a living breathing document to guide companies on the safe collection, storage, manipulation, and destruction of non-public personal information on their employees, clients, or business services.
CISCO has announced and released patches for a critical bug in their product that could allow Internet hackers to create accounts remotely on CISCO devices via the HTTP management application. Patches have been released and workarounds documented for unpatched systems no longer supported. Take action to patch now.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us. In our efforts to address all of the questions a business owner reviewing our blog might have, we’ve collected the most frequently asked questions and have tried to answer them with the most effective mitigating control available for a particular risk. There are undoubtedly many more mitigating controls one can put in place, but this is a great starting point.
In the spooky season of October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month reminds us of the real threats lurking in the digital realm. CyberHoot sheds light on three cybersecurity fundamentals: Password Protection, Phishing Awareness, and Safe Browsing Practices. Fortify your digital domain with strong password practices, stay vigilant to phishing schemes, and navigate the web safely. Embrace the cybersecurity training and phishing testing offered by CyberHoot to morph into a digital wizard against the sinister specter of cyber threats. Venture to cyberhoot.com and make cybersecurity awareness a fun-filled endeavor!
October marks the observance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a pivotal time for businesses and individuals to bolster their understanding and actions towards cybersecurity. This means it is time for you to put action to words and get your staff trained up on the cyber threats they face. Cyber Literacy is a critical skill for the 21st century. Are you doing your part to educate your employees on the threats they face and how to avoid them?
Investing in Employee Cyber Literacy to build better human firewall skills makes strong financial sense. A string of recent breaches has put this in stark perspective for all companies. This article presents a case for the financial Return On Investment of employee awareness training and phish testing as delivered automatically by CyberHoot.
CyberHoot is offering any MSP free enrollment of any and all clients into CyberHoot for free until the end of October (31st), 2023. Enroll your prospects or existing customers in our platform and launch expedited Cybersecurity awareness training in the Month of Oct. using our fully automated system. We will credit you any users or clients enrolled for the entire month of Oct. Must be a new client to CyberHoot. If after the month ends you want to remove them, you absolutely may without penalty.
CyberHoot has been shown to improve customer retention for MSPs. It lowers the cost of supporting clients through fewer security incidents, better product training, and educational phish testing. We know it works because MSPs tell us emails to support asking “Is this a Phish?” or “Is this an Attack?” go away. Start a 30 day free trial and month-to-month forever afterwards.
Top 5 Emerging Cybersecurity Threats Businesses Must Be Aware Of Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve in sophistication and impact. Businesses must address these top 5 emerging threats proactively instead of …
Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and expand in both sophistication and impact. Businesses must choose how to address these top 5 emerging threats proactively, when they control the playing field and have high ground instead of reactively, after an incident when they have been knocked down and are struggling to get up.
Augmentt partners with CyberHoot to build Cybersecurity Literacy within MSPs and their clients.
Hackers have been using EvilProxy to capture authenticated session tokens from unsuspecting phishing email victims.
The White House recognizes the importance of cybersecurity literacy by proposed to fund K-12 education of school teachers and administrators and possibly also students.
For most businesses, balancing time and money is a constant struggle. A risk assessment is designed to simplify your conversations by identifying both the most critical risks and rank ordering them, enabling you to determine what to work on first and then work your way down the list of critical threats to your business.
CyberHoot Press Release Microsoft Graph API Integration Portsmouth, NH – July 17th, 2023 – CyberHoot, a leading Cybersecurity Learning Management System (LMS), today announced the integration of Microsoft’s Graph API …
Cybersecurity training and phish testing delivers enormous value to your MSP, its clients and all employees. Most value is obvious such as fewer security incidents while other value may be over looked such as providing employees better work-life balance with fewer nights and weekends spent recovering from security incidents.
Exploiting a flaw in how the app handles communication with external tenants gives threat actors an easy way to send malicious files from a trusted source to an organization’s employees. Microsoft believes this is a feature and no patch will be provided. This delivery method bi-passes traditional payload delivery security controls.
Protecting Your Business and Family from DeepFake Attacks: A Comprehensive Guide Unmasking the Dark Reality: FBI Discovers Surge in Deep Fake Attacks, Threatening Individuals and Businesses with Extortion and Humiliation. …
Business Ninja’s interviewed CyberHoot’s co-Founder Craig Taylor. This interview outlines CyberHoot’s unique and positive outcome approach to cybersecurity program development at your company. Our Co-Founder details what’s working and what’s broken in the emergency Cybersecurity industry. Business owners need to watch to learn what they should be doing to protect their businesses from compromise. Doing so provides much needed peace of mind.
The FBI has reported a dramatic growth in Deep Fake attacks on individuals and businesses from hackers seeking to extort money from or embarrass individuals and businesses by creating elicit pornographic material in the likeness of the victim from their online persona and public images and videos.
This article outlines five unusual benefits and five well known benefits to Awareness Training and Phish Testing service. It presents them to Manage Service Providers (MSPs) hoping to convince them to add such services to their standard offerings for all clients.
Virus warning attacks have plagued computer users for years. Recently, hackers have figured out how to exploit these attacks in your Google Chrome (and possibly other) browsers, seizing control of your browser and scaring you into calling fake customer support hotlines to extort you for money.
Cybersecurity too often seems like a stress inducing serial murder show. While it is serious business, adding a dose of humor will make it more memorable.
Growing your MSP is not as hard as you might think. It require a laser focus on differentiation, adding cybersecurity services, and fanatical attention to customer service to name a few of the top 10 items lists in this article.
The FIDO alliance is a high-powered tech alliance seeking to eliminate passwords from our online lives by replacing them with a much more secure public and private key authentication solution. Backed by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, it is a strong foray into the elimination of passwords from our everyday lives.
Cybersecurity platforms are designed to build robust, layered defenses for your organization. However, too often they fall short of their lofty and critical goals. This articles delves into 10 common failure points and provides unique perspectives on how to avoid them.
To stand out and foster lasting relationships, MSPs must go beyond basic technical support by adopting innovative strategies to provide additional value to their customers. Once successful, MSPs must call out the emotional value that comes from these solutions.
Voice Cloning is Becoming a Ransom Threat Are you confident that the voice on the other end of the line is who they claim to be? Voice impersonation, powered by …
Voice impersonation, also known as voice cloning, are becoming an increasingly prevalent threat in the digital landscape. Sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can now imitate voices with remarkable accuracy, leading to threats against our privacy and security.
Attack-based phish testing creates fear, anxiety, and doubt in end users. It does not create awareness, harms IT, and misinforms management. Despite representing a billion dollar industry, traditional attack-based phish testing is fundamentally flawed. It causes untold problems for IT departments, individual users, and Managed Service Providers. Studies have shown it can even lead to more clicks by end users! This article outlines the fundamental flaws in attack-based phishing. It goes on to outline improvements from educational, positive outcome phish testing assignments that teach users how to finally spot every phishing attack and delete or avoid it.
Multi-factor authentication can be one of the best protect measures companies can implement on their critical accounts. However, not all methods of MFA are equal and some, like SMS, carry inherent risks and should not be used.
CyberHoot Press Release Gradient Billing Integration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Portsmouth, NH – March 28th, 2023 – CyberHoot today announces Gradient billing integration through their Synthesize platform. Synthesize helps MSPs automate …
There is a dark side to ChatGPT. Hacking tutorials abound on YouTube showing unskilled hackers how to hack with ChatGPT. ChatGPT can create convincing phishing attacks in a language of your choice, writing software code for them, which through trial and error can transform into novel and effective malware.
Cybersecurity tools every MSP needs in their toolbox to identify attacks, limit damage, and recover quickly.
These 10 cybersecurity tools need to be in every MSP’s toolbox. Use them to secure your clients from breach. Help them protect themselves from what they might not know about cybersecurity.
