Reading Time: 3 minutes US politician and Texas Representative Michael C.Burgess has voiced a very strong opinion regarding the issue of malware attacks when he said that Ransomware perpetrators should be “shot at sunrise”. He made this comment at the encryption hearing before a House subcommittee on Tuesday. The comment that Mr. Burgess has made deserves special mention, especially…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, Comodo announced availability of its next version of its free Comodo IT management platform, Comodo One MSP version 3.1. Comodo One MSP (formerly known as Comodo ONE) is a version of the Comodo One integrated IT management platform that has been specifically enhanced for MSPs by combining Remote Monitoring and Management, Service Desk, and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Comodo Threat Research Labs (CTRL) team has identified a phishing attack targeted at potential WhatsApp customers – specifically those who speak and read Italian. The new phishing campaign in Italian is yet another attempt to leverage a well-respected brand to benefit the cybercriminal – warning potential victims that their account has expired, and that…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Our philosophy at Comodo is that every single technology transaction needs to have a layer of trust and security built into it. In June 2015, we relaunched a relationship with TechSoup, a leading civil society organization that works to improve lives globally through the use of technology. Since then, now more than 500 nonprofit organizations…

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the U.S., April 18 is Tax Filing Day – But it is also an Unofficial National Phishing Day for the Cybercriminal The April 18 deadline for submitting individual and company tax returns in the U.S. is a cause for stress and tension for the procrastinators – and one of the milestones of the year…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo has once again topped the charts – this time for the fifth consecutive quarter – as the global leader in digital certificates. With the close of the first quarter (April 1), Comodo now owns 40.8 percent of the market share in digital certificates, according to w3techs.com, an independent IT market research firm. W3techs.com studies…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It has been well established by w3techs.com that for the past 14 months, Comodo has been the global leader in SSL certificate marketshare – surpassing Symantec back in February 2015 and never looking back (see latest post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comodo-global-ssl-digital-certificate-leader-now-five-zinkowski) And just like the analyst community has experts from Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Ovum, and other analyst…

Reading Time: 3 minutes We are starting to see it more and more: ransomware attacks are on the rise – and we’ve been seeing it especially (and unfortunately) in the medical profession lately, where patient records, medical data and key healthcare information are all being locked and held for ransom by cybercriminals. So why is this happening? And why…

Reading Time: 1 minute At Comodo, we have released updates today to Comodo Internet Security (CIS), which also contains Comodo Antivirus and Comodo Free Firewall, in order to address a few security vulnerabilities that were recently reported by the Google Project Zero team. The updated version of the new Comodo Internet Security product range is CIS 8.2.0.4978. Comodo also…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The model is familiar: Software developers work tirelessly to improve their product, releasing new versions to add new features or fix existing bugs, making their software as good as it can be. Well, it turns out, malware creators have been taking notes. When the notorious, and prolific, TeslaCrypt ransomware was released last year, it did…