Dec 8, 2021 | Blog, General Interest, Ransomware, Recent News, Security, Technology News
Vestas Wind Systems is one of the leaders in wind turbine manufacturing in North America with 40,000 MW currently installed and another 36,000 MW under service in both the US and Canada. Recently the company published a breach notification indicating that they had...
Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, General Interest, Ransomware, Recent News, Security, Technology News
Hackers around the world are flexing their muscles. For reasons that aren’t yet clear they have been launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers and it is leading to widespread voice outages. VoIP...
Sep 30, 2021 | Blog, General Interest, Ransomware, Recent News, Security, Technology, Technology Tips
Not long ago Microsoft patched a critical MSHTML remote code execution security flaw being tracked as CVE-2021-40444. Beginning on August 18th of this year (2021) the company spotted hackers exploiting this flaw in the wild. So far there have been fewer than ten...
Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, General Interest, Ransomware, Recent News, Security, Technology News
Not long after successfully attacking Kaseya the band of cyber criminals behind the REvil ransomware strain went dark. Their “Happy Blog” mysteriously went offline. It is not known if the group went into hiding as a safety precaution after their attack...
Sep 22, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, General Interest, Ransomware, Recent News, Security, Technology News, Technology Tips
A new ransomware gang known as “LockFile” has recently burst onto the scene. They specifically target Microsoft Exchange servers to gain access then proceed to encrypt everything they can find. LockFile employs a trio of vulnerabilities that are...
Oct 8, 2020 | Business, cybersecurity, Managed Services, Ransomware, Security
Back in the day, malware such as viruses, spyware, and Trojan horses only had the ability to disrupt computer systems. But nowadays, there is one type of malware that poses a greater danger: ransomware. Question 1: What is ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malicious...