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Software failure and security issues are the most common causes of costly downtime for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and nearly a quarter of SMBs say they have gone offline in the past year.
The post Downtime Costs up to $50,000 per Ho… Continue reading Downtime Costs up to $50,000 per Hour for SMBs Struggling with Cybersecurity, New Research Shows
New research indicates that infosec professionals are more concerned about their employers’ security than the security of their own home, with the vast majority saying recent data breaches in the business sector have increased their organiza… Continue reading Infosec Professionals Are More Worried About Corporate Security than Their Own Home Security
A new report reveals exponential growth in the number of phishing and website scams leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic, including websites peddling fake COVID-19 cryptocurrencies and crypto wallets that aim to siphon data for phishing. One site even clai… Continue reading Fake COVID-19 Cryptocurrency Emerges Promising to Gain Value with Each Death
IT services giant Cognizant has calculated it will lose between $50 million and $70 million from a ransomware incident in April, the CFO said on an earnings call. Cognizant confirmed to clients on April 18 that a security incident involving its interna… Continue reading Cognizant Expects to Lose up to $70 Million from April Ransomware Attack
Ransomware attackers have breached Europe’s largest private hospital operator, affecting not just its European branches, but every part of the company’s operations around the globe, sources say. Infosec journalist Brian Krebs reported yeste… Continue reading Ransomware Operators Hit Major Healthcare Supplier in Europe as COVID-19 Continues to Take Lives
Phishing and business-email-compromise (BEC) schemes are on the rise, causing losses in the $50,000 to $100,000 range to small businesses across the United States. More than a third of organizations said they received an email from someone pretending t… Continue reading A Single Phishing Email Can Cost a Small Business $100K – Here’s How to Protect Your Office Against Fraud
23% of infosec professionals say that cybersecurity incidents experienced by their organization have increased since transitioning to remote work. At the same time, almost half say they have been taken off some or all of their typical security dut… Continue reading Cybersecurity Incidents Up 23% after COVID-19 Forced Businesses to Switch to Remote Work
New data showing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on online fraud in the first quarter of 2020 shows that 26.5% of all transactions were fraud and abuse attempts, which is a 20% increase over the previous quarter. And with new fraud campaigns driven b… Continue reading New Research Shows 20% Spike in Fraud as Digital Behavior Shifts Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Apple has made quite a few headlines these past couple of days, including one of a particularly annoying – and potentially dangerous – crashing bug. The Sindhi “text bomb,” as it’s come to be known, involves a Sindhi langu… Continue reading How to Block the “Sindhi Text Bomb” on iOS
In a statement released today, Apple refutes claims made by a security firm that iOS suffers from a serious flaw that can allow bad actors to steal users’ files and data. Earlier this week, reports broke out that the iOS Mail app contained a zero… Continue reading Apple: iOS Mail Bug Doesn’t Pose an ‘Immediate’ Risk to Our Users