Cyber Insurance Does Not Pay out for Human Error

Insurers will always work to limit their risk, so it is important for the buyer to be aware of what is in the fine print of any policy. Particularly with the recent WannaCry Ransomware insurers and [...]

The Cyber Warfare Cell that Worries the West

Is North Korea behind the WannaCry Ransomware strain that hit a couple of weeks ago? A recent Reuters article points out what is happening in North Korea and it seems more and more signs are point [...]

Security Updates

As we all saw this weekend the cyber world is fragile, and vulnerable. As we have increased our reliance on technology we have also exponentially increased our risk and created an extremely [...]

Sponcia Achieves Certified Cyber Security Architect Certification

Paul Sponcia, CEO of The IT Company, recently attended the 26th Annual HIPAA Summit in Washington, DC and spent a day in a class and then taking an exam to earn his Certified Cyber Security Architect [...]

April 12th, 2017 |Categories: Uncategorized

ALERT: Massive Wave Of CryptoLocker Ransomware Infections

We received this email from our friends at KnowBe4.com today:

Mistakes Happen

Many folks may know that large parts of the internet were seemingly down on Tuesday. The reason was a massive outage from Amazon Web Services, which now runs web services for some of the largest [...]

BEWARE: CEO Fraud And W-2 Phishing Scam Combined

The IRS warned that phishers started a new scam which is particularly nasty and dangerous. This scam combines CEO fraud (where email attacks spoof the CEO and a high-risk employee) and W-2 phishing [...]

February 10th, 2017 |Categories: W-2 Phishing, Phishing, Email, CEO Fraud

New Mac malware targets Microsoft Word users

From the Cult of Mac site, a warning of a malware strain going after Microsoft Word on the Mac users. Mac's have long remained more isolated and immune, but as they become more pervasive and more [...]

Anthem data breach was caused by a foreign nation attacker

The large-scale cybersecurity attack on Anthem in 2015 that led to 78.8 million consumer records potentially being exposed in a data breach was caused by a foreign nation attacker, according to the [...]

Fake Netflix App is Actually Ransomware

Kaspersky warned on their blog: "People are downloading a new app, looking to get free access to Netflix accounts. What they’re actually getting is a malware strain called Netix that encrypts users’ [...]

February 8th, 2017 |Categories: NetFlix, Social Engineering, Ransomware, Security, knowbe4.com