Category: Newsletters

Emotet Has Reemerged as Top Malware in Circulation The HP Wolf Security threat research team has identified a 2700% increase in Emotet infections in the first quarter of 2022, re-emerging in late 2021 after …

Fake Emergency Search Warrants Becoming a Problem There is a new and highly effective strategy that criminal hackers are using to gather sensitive customer data from Internet Service Providers (ISPs), …

Increase MRR While Reducing Costs At Your MSP An important part of running a successful Managed Service Provider (MSP) is ensuring you’re managing your monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and your expenses. One …

Software as a Service (SaaS) Risks and Challenges Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have transformed businesses over the last decade providing enormous value. SaaS solutions have enabled businesses to …

Pegasus Spyware NSO, an Israeli company has been selling governments spyware surveillance tools. National Public Radio, detailed this spyware, called Pegasus, allowing governments (hackers?) to access a victim’s cellphone to …

Prevention Absent: Congress Cybersecurity Bill  Highly publicized ransomware breaches at Colonial Pipeline and JBS meats has congress seeking new federal legislation aimed at forcing government agencies, subcontractors, and suppliers to …

Israel Launches ‘Stuxnet 3.0’ On Iran Iran blamed Israel for an alleged cyber-attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges. While the Israeli government did not claim …

Twitter Steganography Risks Steganography is the interesting but potentially dangerous technique of hiding data or malware code secretly within an ordinary, non-secret file or message to avoid detection. The use of …

Emotet Operation Takedown In January of 2021, law enforcement and judicial authorities across the globe disrupted one of the most notable botnets of the past decade: Emotet. Investigators have taken control of its …

Ransomware Task Force Forming The damaging effects of ransomware hit $11.5 billion in 2019 and doubled in 2020 as new, more damaging and dangerous strains of ransomware (Maze, Sodinokibi, Ryuk, Dharma) hit companies. In December 2020, …

HTTPS-Only Mode Introduced by Firefox Having HTTPS-enabled websites is crucial when entering passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information. When accessing unencrypted HTTP-enabled sites, users can fall victim to …

Remote Worker Security and Productivity The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic has lead many workers to work from home to slow its spread. As we move into a third wave of infections, …

Hacker’s Court Hearing Disrupted By Porn Clip The FBI caught the perpetrator involved in the recent Twitter Hack, 17-year old Graham Clark. Clark was having his arraignment virtually on a …

Feature Story: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID19) Advisory The Coronavirus (COVID-19), has now infected nearly 90,000 235,000 people worldwide as of March 2, 2020 March 19th, 2020, killing more than 3,000 10,000 …

SIM Swapping by Hacking Telecom Companies Hackers never cease to stop evolving and finding new ways to get your information. Hackers are now breaking into telecom companies to take over …