Ransomware is growing at an alarming rate -- up 150% in 2020 and spiking even higher in 2021, with more than half of infected businesses paying the ransom. (1) The list of high-profile ransomware attacks grows almost daily, affecting government agencies, critical...
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DarkSide Ransomware and the Colonial Pipeline Attack
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack exposed long-standing vulnerabilities in U.S. cybersecurity: the government and private sector have struggled to work together to build more resilient defenses, and outdated security models have made it difficult for the federal...
SolarWinds and Qualys Attacks: Why You Need Digital Supply Chain Protection
The SolarWinds attack was a pivotal moment for cybersecurity, proving that sophisticated threat actors could breach an organization through their trusted security supply chain. (1) The recent Qualys attack -- in which cybersecurity firm Qualys suffered a data breach...
Breach Blog: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
In 2018, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) — a federally-funded research and development center that manages multiple deep space missions for NASA — was breached by hackers using a cheap, build-it-yourself Raspberry Pi computer. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg....
Breach Blog: The Texas Ransomware Attack
Prep your systems and local governments. 2019 is the year of government-targeted ransomware. At least 22 Texas towns were recently hit by a malicious, coordinated ransomware attack – the first of its kind to hit the public sector. It’s unclear at this time how the...
Small Business, Big Target: Does My SMB Need Cybersecurity?
Small and midsized business owners are obviously aware of the threat of cyber attacks. You read about them in newspapers or hear about them on news reports. Everyone knows about the attacks on big companies including Yahoo, eBay, Equifax, Target Stores, JP Morgan...
Hackers Exploiting an Open Door Policy at Equifax
It’s currently unknown how long hackers were in Equifax’s systems before they were detected, or if the ones discovered were the only ones that took advantage of Equifax’s open door policy. What we do know is that they (and potentially others) possibly lived within the...
What the Hack is Going on with Equifax?
On the cyber frontier, more than 143 million Americans were just hit by a digital disaster, this one in the form of a successful hack against Equifax. Equifax is one of three credit reporting agencies, Experian and TransUnion being the others. They provide credit...