Tag Archives: Ransomware

Shields Up in 2024 – Recommended Cybersecurity Guidance for DC Region Organizations

As the nation’s cyber defense agency, CISA helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the impact of cyberattacks. CISA’s Shields Up campaign is a heads-up to every organization—large and small— to adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity and protect your most critical assets against disruptive cyber incidents. Important recommended actions to […]

Stay Vigilant… 5 Techniques Bad Guys are Using to Breach Your IT

While we all know security is important, sometimes day-to-day operations overwhelm our good intentions to keep up with fast-moving technology threats. Staying safe means being continually aware and taking precautions against the more common techniques bad guys are using to breach businesses every day: 1. Spoofing – Email spoofing is when the sender address is […]

Ransomware Attacks Scale Up As Hackers Go After Remote Workers

While the switch to home working has allowed many organizations and employees to remain productive, it has also brought additional risk as IT and security teams try to deal with overlapping personal and corporate networks. Ransomware attacks soared during the first half of 2020, as cyber criminals looked to spread their file-encrypting malware as millions […]