Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:08 +0000
A Sophos X-Ops investigation finds that a wave of crude, cheap ransomware could spell trouble for small businesses and individuals – but also provide insights into threat actor career development and the wider threat landscape
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Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:00:28 +0000
Ransomware remains the biggest existential cyber threat to small businesses, but others are growing.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:30:00 -0800
Apple’s solutions are seeing increasing use across the enterprise, but do you have a business resilience strategy in place in case things go wrong?
If you’re one of the estimated 73% of SMBs that have not yet made such preparation, now might be a good time to start.
It’s challenging enough when a consumer user suffers data loss as precious memories and valuable information go up in the digital smoke. Natural disasters, technology and infrastructure problems or human-made problems such as burglary, cyberattacks or civil unrest can all impact the sanctity of your systems, whatever platform you use. It matters because in today’s connected world, your data is your business.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:05:00 -0800
Microsoft will not provide new malware signatures for its home-grown Security Essentials software after it retires Windows 7 in five weeks.
“No, your Windows 7 computer is not protected by MSE ((Microsoft Security Essentials)) after January 14, 2020,” the company said in a support document mainly concerned about the Extended Security Updates (ESU) being shilled to enterprises. “MSE is unique to Windows 7 and follows the same lifecycle dates for support.”
Security Essentials, a free antivirus (AV) program that launched in 2008, was originally limited to consumers. However, in 2010, Microsoft expanded the licensing to small businesses, defined as those with 10 or fewer PCs. Two years after that, MSE was replaced by Windows Defender with the launch of Windows 8.