Prepare your company for more sophisticated, complex, and devastating ransomware attacks in 2018, says Avecto COO Andrew Avanessian. Ransomware became a massive nuisance for enterprises, SMBs, and consumers in 2017—and that threat is not going anywhere in the coming year. TechRepublic's Dan Patterson spoke with Avecto's COO Andrew Avanessian to…

A Massive Resource for Cybercriminals Makes it Easy to Access Billions of Credentials. Now even unsophisticated and newbie hackers can access the largest trove ever of sensitive credentials in an underground community forum. Is the cyber crime epidemic about become an exponentially worse? While scanning the deep and dark web…

Not long ago, phishing attacks were fairly easy for the average Internet user to spot: Full of grammatical and spelling errors, and linking to phony bank or email logins at unencrypted (http:// vs. https://) Web pages. Increasingly, however, phishers are upping their game, polishing their copy and hosting scam pages…

Microsoft has launched Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. Office 365 ATP is meant to help organizations stay secure by detecting and addressing new and unknown threats. Initially launched in 2015, Office 365 launched to protect "against unknown malware and viruses, real-time, time-of-click protection…

It has never been more important to review all IT security practices and avoid becoming a statistic Security of data in the cloud is a hot topic, especially with so many data breaches occurring during 2017 and the introduction of GDPR being just months away. The field of security is…