Ransomware is a very real threat. Follow the adage; it is better to be safe than sorry.
Safe, Not Sorry; Protect Your Data
Tags: Email Security // Ransomware
What we can learn from “WannaCry”
On the past weekend the headlines were coming thick and fast about the ransomware known as “WannaCry”, which had paralyzed computers around the globe – even impacting on critical infrastructure.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
The whole world has a smart phone? Far from it!
When walking through any public space, one gets the impression that each and every person is using a smartphone. A new survey shows, however, that this is an optical illusion.
Tags: Enterprise SMS // Smartphones
Spam wave: Online fraudsters bank on stock market manipulation
Retarus has recently recorded a sharp rise in the volume of messages proposing that readers buy supposedly promising shares. By means of these investment recommendations, cyber criminals are trying to influence the share price of a particular company’s stock to their own advantage.
Tags: cyber crime // Email Security // Spam
Growing amount of zero-day malware in circulation
During the last quarter of 2016, 30 percent of all malware doing the rounds was so new that traditional anti-virus software companies had not yet developed signatures for them.
Tags: Email Security // IT-Security // Patient Zero Detection
IT Security: Detection and Response ever more crucial
Gartner have observed that users are shifting an ever growing portion of their IT security budgets to “Detection and Response” activities. Demand for pure prevention, the experts go on to say, is now shrinking.
Tags: Detection and Response // Email Security // IT-Security // Patient Zero Detection