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LATEST CYBERSECURITY ATTACKS END UP WITH YOUR EMPLOYEES NOT GETTING PAID
Here is a scary, but very real story: A company had an employee receive an email from their HR/Accounting department asking the individual to update their direct deposit information, or so the person thought was their colleague.
The employee went on and replied to this email including their bank account information to the “HR/Accounting department”. The individual then followed up (days or weeks later) with their HR/Accounting department when they did not receive a paycheck!
The email, in fact, was not from the person’s employer, but indeed from a cyber-attacker.
Microsoft Office 365- What You Need To Know
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft decided to join the software subscription craze and launched their Office version, Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 works the same as the previous version of Office, but it offers users real-time software updates as well as a few other perks.
How to save thousands during next year’s annual technology budget
Technology is expensive. From annual investments in new hardware, to enhanced software that improves your business, and fast friendly IT support; technology can become an expensive line item in your annual budget.
Let's review some key areas where you can potentially save THOUSANDS in your annual technology budget.
5 Email Security Awareness Warning Signs
This email is from someone outside my organization and it's not related to my job responsibilities.
I was cc'd on an email sent to one or more people, but I don't personally know the other people it was sent to.
Is the email message a reply to something I never sent or requested?
Do I have an uncomfortable gut feeling about the sender's request to open and attachment or click a link?
I hover my mouse over a link that's displayed in the email message, but the link-to address is for a different website.
A bad place to click this week
Let's walkthrough a very typical Office 365 phishing campaign and then review the ramifications.You receive an email like the above, notice the misspelled email address in the FROM: field. Also, see the inconsistencies in the capitalization.IF you click the link you end up at similar looking but "hacked" SharePoint page with another weird link.
Cybersecurity is now a MUST have department in your organization
MORE than ONE in every FOUR users is susceptible to clicking on a phishing email potentially creating any of the below scenarios (once they are properly educated – this number falls to below 3%).
These scenarios are ACTUALLY happening - we are unfortunately seeing them unfold EVERY WEEK.
These "bad guys" are really smart criminals trying to coerce your team members in to giving up credentials, access, data, or worse - company funds.
How To Make Sure You Never Fall Victim To Ransomware
Late last March, the infrastructure of Atlanta was brought to its knees. More than a third of 424 programs used nearly every day by city officials of all types, including everyone from police officers to trash collectors to water management employees, were knocked out of commission. What’s worse, close to 30% of these programs were […]
If you don’t want all of your email STOLEN, DELETED, or all your contacts to know you’ve been hacked READ THIS…..
If you (ever) click an email link like the one above and logged in with your password – you’ve given your entire mailbox to hackers. With access to your credentials via these “phishing emails”, they can then take over your inbox, DELETE all your email, steal any client or CONFIDENTIAL data, they then email malicious content to ALL of your contacts, and it can get worse.
5 Staggering Stats about your Small Business and Cybersecurity
You've heard it before, the only constant in technology is change. With small businesses, this is especially true. Not just because of the constant focus on operations and marketing, but beyond that, small businesses are the main target of cybersecurity attacks.