by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Aug 20, 2019 | Cyber Security, News
We previously wrote about targeted cyber-attacks on state and local governments in Florida. To read more click here. What Happened? Unfortunately, the rash of attacks has continued, with 23 Texas municipalities announcing they have been victimized as well. State...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Aug 20, 2019 | Best Practices, Cyber Security
A DNS is like a phone book for the internet. With a phone book, you can look up your friend’s name and find their phone number instead of having to remember the number yourself. Similarly, a DNS allows users to reference simple domain names like...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Jul 30, 2019 | Cyber Security, Cyber Security Wednesdays, News, Proactive Monitoring
The FBI has detained a suspect they believe may be repsonsible for the Capital One data breach which impacted over 106m customer accounts and credit card applications between March and July 2019. The suspect, 33 year old Paige Adele Thompson, was found after posting a...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Jun 26, 2019 | Cyber Security, Cyber Security Wednesdays, News
Over the last two weeks, Florida municipalities have paid $1.1m to ransomware hackers. Lake City officials voted to pay hackers in Bitcoin after two weeks of downed computer systems brought daily operations to a standstill. IT staff is said to have disconnected the...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Jun 17, 2019 | Compliance, Cyber Security, News, System Patching & Maintenance
US officials and Microsoft executives have released an advisory that highlights a known flaw in versions of the Windows OS. “All customers on affected operating systems [Windows 7 and earlier] should update as soon as possible,” said Microsoft. A flaw...
