https://youtu.be/lGQ4SZSYrcE Next year, targeted ransomware campaigns will focus on utilities and industrial control systems (ICSs). The average payment demand will increase by 6500 percent, from an average of $300 to $20,000 per payment. These attacks will result in real-world consequences like blackouts and loss of access to public utilities. Ransomware has … [Read more...]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Security Tips
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, in today’s episode of The 443 – Security Simplified, we provide some useful cyber security tips to keep your bank account and home network safe while shopping for the latest holiday tech. Before that though, we cover a breach of over 23 million SMS messages and its impact on multi-factor authentication and account … [Read more...]
Sharing your business destinations to the world on LinkedIn? Beware
Social engineering is an increasingly important methodology used by fraud actors of all types to gather information and target government agencies, SMBs and enterprises – in addition to consumers. In this post, I’d like to share my strong point of view on a topic that is relevant to most of us as business professionals: sharing (over-sharing, I should say) personal information … [Read more...]
2019 Security Predictions – AI-Driven Chatbots Go Rogue
In 2019, cyber criminals and black hat hackers will create malicious chatbots that try to socially engineer victims into clicking links, downloading files or sharing private information. A hijacked chatbot could misdirect victims to nefarious links rather than legitimate ones. Attackers could also leverage web application flaws in legitimate websites to insert a malicious … [Read more...]
This Twenty-Year Old Hack Still Beats Most Wi-Fi Access Points – And Here’s Why
Wi-Fi is the most popular wireless networking protocol in the world and has existed for almost 20 years, but in that time, the layer two surface has remained largely undefended from many wireless attacks. Our Director of Product Management and resident Wi-Fi expert Ryan Orsi recently wrote a guest blog for Dark Reading, which explains how Wi-Fi security is lagging across … [Read more...]
