At the end of every year, the WatchGuard Threat Lab predicts what types of cyber threats you should expect in the coming year. For 2019, one of our bolder predictions was to expect ransomware to target industrial control systems (ICS). Well, that prediction may have already hit with a ransomware attack against Norsk Hydro. Recently, this global aluminum smelting company … [Read more...]
Grande Bootleg Malware – Security Byte
There’s a number of reasons you shouldn’t pirate music, video, or software but malware is definitely one of them. If you don’t know by now, few things in life are truly free. You might think that pirated album you found online is a cool find (I hope not), but it may come with hidden surprises. Recently, news came to light that a pirated copy of Ariana Grande’s latest album was … [Read more...]
Stay Safe When Filing Taxes Online: 4 Top Cyber Tax Tips for 2019
There’s no shortage of tax scams these days, as a quick click through to the IRS’s Tax Scam website will demonstrate. It’s getting so bad that the IRS again released its list of the “Dirty Dozen” scams for 2019. Leading off the list this year were phishing scams (which rose 60 percent in 2018 according to the IRS), followed by phones scams, identity theft, return preparer fraud … [Read more...]
IT Service Providers Face Dilemma: Embrace the Cloud or Get Pushed Out
The adoption of Cloud services is driving an evolution of the IT services landscape, forcing IT service providers to either embrace a Managed Service Provider (MSP) model or quickly be pushed out by those that do. Where being a value-added reseller (VAR) was once the optimal service model, the managed services model is now paving the way forward without signs of stopping. This … [Read more...]
Greetings From the UK!
Welcome back to another episode of The 443 – Security Simplified. We have another special episode this week coming from Manchester UK, where we sit down with Sr. Sales Engineer Martin Lethbridge to discuss the cyber threats that businesses are facing on this side of the pond. In the episode, we cover three main security concerns and how organizations across the world can combat … [Read more...]
