A new version of the CryptoWall ransomware has been released called CryptoWall 2.0 that includes numerous "enhancements" to the previous version.
CryptoWall has been a huge threat for computer users since its release. Silently, it encrypts all local data and any data it can see on network shares.
Would you let your son or daughter get into a car and drive away without fastening their seat belts? Would you let your husband or wife buy a new car that did not have air bags? Would you think nothing of going off on a long trip knowing that your front tires are bald or your brakes are in dire need of replacement? The answers to all those questions are obvious: Of course you would not! A reasonable man or woman would certainly not.
Sometimes you need a Tech for a Day. This is how IT Radix first started working with Vanguard Controls from Flanders, NJ. Vanguard is a high tech firm offering a wide range of process measurement and control technologies for pharmaceutical, food, flavor, chemical and other industries.
IT Radix is pleased to welcome Windsor Strategy Partners to its growing list of happy and satisfied clients. This unique company provides a range of actuarial analysis and consulting as well as software products and services with a focus in the healthcare cost management arena.
American sports viewers are starting to become much more interested in soccer. Witness for example the Monday night USA versus Ghana World Cup game broadcast on ESPN last Monday night. That event captured about 16 million viewers. To put that into perspective, Game 5 of the NHL finals had about 6 million viewers.
We got a call yesterday from a prospective client, a mid-sized organization with a number of computers. We had spoken with them previously three months prior.
The reason for the call was that their entire network had been hit and crippled by the Crypto Locker virus and they were looking for our help.
In my last post, I identified the need to protect your business from information theft. In my humble opinion, most small-medium business don’t pay sufficient attention to this risk. Here are some interesting statistics about cybercrime’s wide reach:
1 in 6 – Number of companies where employee fell for a simulated phishing email scam
$5.9 million – Median annual cost of cybercrime per U.S. company
47% – Number of U.S. small businesses that provide cybersecurity training to employees
The good news is that your security system doesn’t need to be perfect but rather, it just needs to be better than most.
About a year ago, I had the pleasure of hearing a presentation by Marc Goodman, a security guru who works with the FBI, CIA and more. The insights he shared about how organized crime is leveraging technology was truly mind-bending and in some cases, downright scary.
You took a look at a new car online and now car ads are popping up on your social media pages, in your email and everywhere. Why? Because you're being tracked as you surf the Internet. While you're surfing, technology is collecting data on you and your surfing habits.
By now, you’ve probably already heard of the web server vulnerability dubbed "Heartbleed". There is a lot of confusing info about it out there in the wild. We thought we’d summarize it for you:
What it is? A bug on some web servers that that can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive user information in a server’s memory including usernames, passwords and credit card numbers from a website.
