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2 New Russian Ransomware Scams – Warn Your Employees
From: CyberheistNews Check out their free phishing test at http://www.knowbe4.com/phishing-security-test/ Just in the last week, two new Ransomware scams were found in the wild. One scam accuses the end-user of copyright violation, as content was found on the victim’s PC and has been moved to an encrypted directory. To release the encrypted data, and to prevent…
Helpful Tips for Upgrading Your IT Security
If it seems like every time you turn around there’s another article about the importance of Internet and computer security, you’re right. The dangers of the Internet continue to change as hackers grow more sophisticated. The need to protect your business’ network and files can never be overstated. Downtime will be the least of your…
Doctors Receive $4.5 Billion in EHR Incentive Pay
Some doctors, especially those over 50, resist transitioning to cloud computing and electronic health records (EHR) because they worry about the safety of storing patients’ medical records online or on servers. Studies have shown that hackers, malware and viruses notwithstanding, it’s safer, in the long run, to store patients’ medical records electronically than in a…
Apple OS X Lion Update Fixes Flaws
People make mistakes, and the folks at Apple made a big one when they sent out OS X Lion 10.7.3 with the debug option on FileVault enabled. If it’s any consolation, only users of Legacy FileVault and/or networked home directories are affected. Installing the OS X Lion v10.7.4 should correct the error. As Apple explains…
Six Steps to Successful Security Awareness Training
Everyone in your office needs some type of Internet security training. But nobody ever really likes going to training sessions because they’re often kind of dull and discuss worst-case scenarios that people often doubt will ever occur. Of course, you know that these worst-case scenarios can and do occur all the time, and you want…
