We’re seeing a rash of ransomware sweeping across IT systems, ranging from large enterprises to microbusinesses with only a few PCs. As I am writing this, we are in the middle of responding to an incident where a business has been entirely shut down due to being infected with the Locky ransomware. The entire business has […]
Last week, WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook dedicated an episode to the topic of ransomware. The guests included ransomware victims, as well as a security professional who discussed the problem. Unfortunately, the expert occasionally used jargon that may be foreign without some context, but Tom did a decent job of getting definitions from him. […]
With all of the scams running around the Internet today, it’s easy to ask “what can we do?” Just last week I met with an employee of a company that had been completely shut down for a week due to ransomware (probably Locky, probably delivered by an email to an HR executive who had too […]
We regularly receive reports from clients who are denied access to certain websites, all while in the course of performing their legitimate work duties. As this Ars Technica article explains, a number of very high profile websites, including The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, were effectively compromised by their advertising partners’ ad […]