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3 Ways to Help Keep Your Company Data Safe

  As a small business owner, it’s important to keep your networks and customer data safe. With so many bad actors on the Internet these days, you need the best […]

3 Benefits of Hiring a Professional IT Company

Computers and networks are vital to today’s business, and managing them can be demanding. Firewalls, disaster recovery, updates … you need a full time staff to keep up with it […]

Open Database Exposes Info Of 340 Million People

Internet security researcher Vinny Trola recently made a huge and disturbing discovery.  A marketing firm called Exactis had left a massive database unsecured, allowing anyone who stumbled across it to […]

The U.S. Is The Most At Risk Nation For Cyber Attacks

Being “number 1” isn’t always a good thing.  Rapid7 has just published their third annual “National Exposure Index,” and unfortunately, the United States has the dubious honor of being the […]

Healthcare Sector Facing Rise In Ransomware Attacks

The Department of Health and Human services has issued a warning to healthcare providers to be on high alert for the SamSam strain of ransomware, which has been used to […]

Information On 48 Million People Leaked Through Massive File

File this one away under self-inflicted wounds.  It has recently come to light that a company called LocalBox left a massive data file vulnerable on a cloud server.  The data […]

Panera Bread Customer Accounts Exposed To Threats

Panera Bread company is the latest to find itself in hot water.  Recently, security researcher Dylan Houlihan discovered that the company had failed to encrypt (or otherwise protect) a file […]

Does Your Business Have A Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan?

If your company has an incident response plan that you can rely on in the face of a cyber attack, then you’re ahead of most of the world, according to […]

Attacks on Health Organizations Increasing At Alarming Rate

It used to be the case that credit card companies and retail outlets were the primary targets of hackers around the world.  Make no mistake, they still get attacked with […]

Another 2.4 Million Users Hacked In Equifax Breach

It looks like it’s going to be another bad month for Equifax.  The company just can’t seem to get out of its own way. In 2017, the company announced a […]