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PGA Golf Organization Gets Hit By Ransomware

These days, we expect giant corporations, government agencies and medical facilities to be the targets of hackers. However, golf is something new. According to a recent report from GolfWeek, the […]

New Report Shows 32 Percent Increase In Cyber Attacks

Positive Technologies has just released a new report that paints a grim picture for IT professionals.  If your sense is that the number of cyberattacks are increasing, you’re not wrong. […]

World Cup Avoided Nearly 25 Million Cyber Attacks This Year

According to the Kremlin, Russia prevented almost twenty five million cyber-attacks during the World Cup this year.   President Vladimir Putin praised the nation’s digital security forces by saying the […]

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 […]