The IRS is reporting that this year the phishing pond of choice is the executive suite.
W-2 email phishing scam – when your CEO is not your CEO
The IRS is reporting that this year the phishing pond of choice is the executive suite.
Everything has a shelf life. We are all used to it. When we go food shopping, the first thing we look at when we pick up a carton of milk is the expiration date.
Despite the growing use of instant messaging and other collaboration tools, email continues to be the de facto standard for business communication. In fact, email sees greater use than the phone and even personal meetings in many organizations.
The cloud is not merely a widely accepted computing model — it’s the basis for nearly every transformative technology on the horizon. The cloud will be a key enabler for looming trends such as the Internet of Things, quantum computing, serverless architectures, machine learning and more.
Although ransomware has reached epidemic proportions, few small businesses have any sort of plan for how to deal with such attacks. In fact, most think they are too small to even be a target for ransomware.
Small businesses may think they won’t become victims of a cyberattack, but odds are they will. In fact, 43 percent of cyberattacks specifically targeted small businesses in 2015, up from just 18 percent in 2011.
Ransomware attacks becoming more frequent and more sophisticated, and aimed at manufacturing companies.
Security researchers and law enforcement officials say the spread of ransomware attacks has reached epidemic proportions, with organizations of all sizes in both the public and private sectors increasingly impacted by this insidious type of malware that encrypts valuable digital files and demands a ransom to decrypt them.
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Last Friday, the accounting system required Dave to change his password since it had been more than 90 days since his last reset.
