How to Defend Against Magecart Skimming Cyber Attacks
Defending Against Magecart Skimming Cyber Attacks Prior to the holidays last year and a couple of months before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic we wrote about our concern with regard to the increase in Magecart attacks against online retailers which
Over 90% of all Cyber-Attacks Involve Phishing – Tips to Stop Phishing Attacks
Phishing Accounts for Over 90% of Cyber-Attacks – Learn How to Stop Them Among the billions of e-mails transmitted each day around the world, a significant and growing portion consists of e-mail attacks aimed at breaching an organization’s defenses to conduct
Securing Your Remote Workforce
Protecting Your Remote Employees from Cyber Attacks As we suggested in our last blog post, this blog post was written to help our customers and readers of our blog protect themselves against cybercriminals who are trying to leverage the Corona Virus
Phishing and Wire Transfer Scams are Victimizing Corporate Executives
“CEO Fraud” or “CEO Fraud Phishing” Doubled Over the Past Year CEO Fraud is a scam in which cyber criminals either spoof or literally take over company email accounts to impersonate executives in order to try and trick an employee in
Why and How DNS Hijacking is Increasing
The IDC Global DNS Threat Report released last summer revealed that 82% of organizations were victims of DNS attacks with each suffering an average of 9 DNS attacks which was an increase of 34%. In addition, over 63% of the
The Benefits of Using a SIEM to Improve IT Security
A SIEM’s Role in Network Security Analysis and Monitoring We put together a series of blog posts that deal with Network Security Design and Log Monitoring that are hopefully providing you clear, straightforward information about the real basics of Network Security.
Why Log Monitoring and Management is Critical to IT Security
Why Log Monitoring and Management is Critical to IT Security In our last blog post titled “The Fundamentals of Network Security Analysis and Monitoring” we discussed active versus passive security devices, flow analysis versus packet analysis, and several of the security
Magecart Campaigns are Targeting e-Commerce Websites
Magecart is Threatening Online Businesses this Holiday Season As we suggested in an earlier blog post, there have been 5,183 breaches from the first nine months of 2019 which exposed 7.9 billion records, both all-time records. The number of breaches
Patch Management Best Practices
Vulnerabilities and Poor Patching Practices Lead to Breaches In our previous blog posts, which discussed the differences between Vulnerability Scans, Vulnerability Assessments, Vulnerability Management and Penetration Tests we indicated how vital these processes and exercises were to eliminating vulnerabilities quickly
The Difference Between a Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment (2 of 2)
What is the Difference Between a Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment? Part 2 of 2 Comparing Penetration Tests and Vulnerability Assessments In part 1 of this post, we focused on the Vulnerability Scans, Vulnerability Assessments, and Vulnerability Management in order to differentiate the