Mar 24, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The chances are that someone you know, or an organization you know, has suffered a ransomware attack – it could be a local police department, a small business, big hospital, or someone in your family, maybe even you! If you haven’t been hit by ransomware personally,...
Mar 21, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Technology companies, banks, websites and security researchers have been trying for a while now to kill the password. The front-runner in the technology race to replace passwords completely, is biometric authentication, with many smartphones giving you the option to...
Mar 17, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Employees of payday lending company Moneytree are used to taking the personal information of customers in exchange for short-term cash infusions. Some of those workers recently found themselves on the other side of the fence after someone at the company fell for the...
Mar 14, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The Ottawa Hospital has confirmed its computer network was infected with ransomware this week, as four of its 9,800 machines were affected. In another Medical Ransomware scenario, the healthcare industry has once again been hit by encryption of files and demands for...
Mar 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security, Sophos
More companies have been caught in phishing scams this tax season. The security company SOPHOS reported in its blog today, that more companies have fallen for the same phishing scams which caught the company ‘SnapChat’. Cybercriminals are targeting...
Mar 8, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
New ransomware infecting Apple OS X surfaced on March 4th 2016, with the emergence of KeRanger. The first inkling of trouble came at the weekend. Users of Transmission – a BitTorrent client widely used on OS X – might have noticed the following warning: Figure 1 – The...
