Category: Monthly Blog

Know the Risks of Sharing your Location How Cybercriminals Exploit the Geolocation Features In Your Favorite Apps Mobile phone applications represent a major threat to everyday consumers. Map apps, social media accounts, and web browsers all try to access our locations regularly, claiming to offer convenience while collecting far too…

Identity Theft Identity theft occurs when someone obtains someone else’s personal information, such as a Social Security number, home address, date of birth or bank account data, and uses it for fraud or other illicit purposes. It's widespread: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fielded more than 1.4 million complaints about…

Attacks on Education and Government Inflict Harm on Unprepared Organizations For the last five years, ransomware has evolved from a rare nuisance to a serious burden to a significant existential threat for businesses and organizations across North America. Defined as an infection that allows hackers to gain access to data,…

Your email is being tracked – learn the secret advertisers don’t want you to know It’s impossible not to be tracked online. Still, you can take steps that make a difference. If you don’t like the idea of advertisers knowing everything about you, shut them out. Unlike your browser history,…

There’s nothing fun about having malware or ransomware on your computer or laptop, and these can leave you feeling foolish and abused. But stalkerware is specifically designed for both phone and computer to know where you physically are located. In many cases, stalkers know exactly what you’re doing and when, too.…

Malware NetDooka Framework Distributed via PrivateLoader Malware as Part of Pay-Per-Install Service Key Points: Trend Micro discovered a pay-per-install service that uses the PrivateLoader malware for distributing a sophisticated malware framework, dubbed NetDooka. The framework consists of a loader, dropper, full-featured remote access trojan (RAT) with its own network communication…

Why cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 Check out our Threat Intelligence module at the bottom of this newsletter. Phishing Campaigns Pick-Up in the Wake of the Ukraine Invasion We’ve seen an upward trend in the number of suspicious emails being flagged related to…

Common Cybersecurity Issues That Organizations Face Cybersecurity is a top concern for today’s business owners and technology executives, and with good reason. In the first half of 2020 alone, 36 billion records were exposed due to data breaches, according to a report generated by the firm Risk Based Security. Hackers…

10-Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Word When it comes to word processing, Microsoft Word is the gold standard. As part of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, more than one billion computer users rely on the program every day. That’s nearly one in seven people on the entire planet — an…

Should You Upgrade to Windows 11 or wait?   How does the new Windows 11 works! Windows 11 first became available in October 2021, but Microsoft waited until the first few months of 2022 to give its new operating system a concerted push. Predictably, the latest OS has seen slow…