Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare: Security Tips to Secure Your Organization’s Data
By Puja Mahendru The outbreak of COVID-19 has put cyberattacks on healthcare providers into hyperdrive. Factors contributing to such attacks include, but aren’t limited to: Decentralized business operations Emergency COVID-19 facilities set up without planned security of IT infrastructure A significant rise in the amount of patient health data stored by healthcare organizations Telehealth, and remote […]
Phishing tricks – the Top Ten Treacheries of 2020
Sophos Phish Threat, in its own words, is a phishing attack simulator – it lets your IT department send realistic-looking fake phishes to your own staff so that if they do slip up, and click through… …it’s not the crooks on the other end. The phishing scammers are testing you all the time, so you might as […]
ProLock Ransomware Threat
ProLock ransomware – new report reveals the evolution of a threat Copyright AKAVEIL Technologies LLC all rights reserved Written by Paul Ducklin Let’s start at the very top of the ransomware dilemma. Should you ever pay blackmail money to ransomware crooks? As you can imagine, law enforcement and government bodies around the world regularly say, […]
Servers at risk from BootHole bug
Servers at risk from BootHole bug – what you need to know Copyright AKAVEIL Technologies LLC all rights reserved Written by Paul Ducklin Another month, another BWAIN! That’s our tongue-in-cheek name for a cybersecurity vulnerability that not only gets assigned an identifier like CVE-2020-10713, but also acquires an impressive name plus a jaunty logo (and even, […]