by Chuck Rutenberg | Jan 17, 2019 | Cyber Threats
Internet fun fact: The term “spam” was first used in 1993 to refer not to unwanted email advertising, but to the accidental posting of 200 messages to a USENET news group. One of the readers of that group called it “spam,” for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. The...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Jan 15, 2019 | Cyber Threats
If you run or work in a small- or medium-sized business (SMB), ask yourself if any of these statements sounds familiar: “My staff and I are too smart to be fooled into installing malware on our computers.”“My business is too small for hackers to be interested in.”“Of...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Dec 21, 2018 | Cyber Threats, IT Alerts
Here is how Microsoft describes the need for an urgent security update they have made available on December 19, 2018. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Dec 20, 2018 | Healthcare IT
Just a few months ago, provider UnityPoint Health suffered a phishing-related data breach that compromised the protected data of up to 1.4 million patients. The breach occurred between March 14th and April 3rd of 2018, when a high-level executive’s email account was...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Dec 13, 2018 | Cyber Threats
Ransomware stories pop up in the news with almost predictable regularity these days. It’s become clear that hackers using ransomware tactics are becoming bolder and demanding more money from their victims. And the fact that many victims choose to pay up simply...
