Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping. Economic forecasters anticipate holiday retail sales will reach a new all-time high in 2019, with U.S. spending set to top $725 billion for the first time in history. The economy is robust, consumer confidence is high, and shoppers are eager to explore great deals and special offers that mark the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is now well underway, and this year’s theme is “Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.” The core message is simple: today’s businesses and consumers must take key proactive steps to ensure their online privacy and devices’ security. This means using strong passwords, taking advantage of multi-factor authentication (MFA), and understanding the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes It can be hard to imagine a world in which an attempted hack attack occurs roughly every 39 seconds. But research shows that’s the world we live in. Some organizations stay in a permanent defensive crouch, running scans and madly installing security patches as needed. While those are good ways to prevent a cyber attack,…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month By Learning to Protect Against Ransomware Attacks It’s the season for pumpkin picking, leaves changing color, getting ready for Halloween parties and trick-or-treating. But ghosts and ghouls aren’t the only scary things you’ll be seeing this month: October is also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time when business leaders and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Did you know October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the U.S.? Started by the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security and the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance, the month puts a spotlight on how businesses and people can be more secure online. And it’s no surprise that over…

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Incidents of user data theft skyrockets day by day. This time a massive data leak hit the customers of Tanzhishuju.com, a Chinese financial company developed by Shanghai Bochi Information Technology Co., Ltd. The company provides customers with a diversity of finance-related services: Small loans, online P2P credit, banking, leasing industry, and third-party payments. It…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The 5 Most Common Pitfalls in Your Security Stack That Put You at Risk for a Breach It can take 6 months or more for an organization to realize a data breach has occurred. Meanwhile, malware has entered your network and is waiting for the command to attack. Intrusions happen all over the world, but…

Reading Time: 1 minute Researchers at Tenable disclosed unpatched vulnerabilities in Comodo Antivirus which were patched as of the 7.29.2019 11.4.0.7655  hotfix.   Customers should update endpoints via Auto-update or manually on Endpoint Manager->Device List, as usual. Remember to check the Default Client Version settings in Portal Set-up before updating your clients. The hotfix contain remediation for (CVE-2019-3969, CVE-2019-3970), (CVE-2019-3971), (CVE-2019-3972) (CVE-2019-3973)…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Today’s businesses are spending more than ever before on cybersecurity solutions. But, all this spending is doing little to curtail the damage cybercrime is causing or to reduce companies’ vulnerability and risk. Worldwide spending on cybersecurity products and services exceeded $114 billion in 2018, and Gartner forecasts the market will grow at a vigorous 8.7%…

Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to data breaches, 2019 already looks ominous. More than one billion records were exposed in the first quarter of the year alone, with a greater number of individual incidents reported than in any previous year. We’re seeing more stolen credentials for sale on the Dark Web than at any time in history—along…