“Fake-tortion” Attacks

by | Oct 3, 2017 | News

There is a new, sophisticated email scam you need to watch out for. The sophisticated attackers are targeting potential victims in an email sequence that starts with pornography and adult dating links, which are then followed up with extortion attempts. IT security...

‘Irma’ Sites Spike

by | Sep 13, 2017 | News

MS-ISAC has noticed a registration of over 743 domain names including the phrase “Irma “in the past few weeks. These new domains contain other words such as help, relief, victims, recover, claims and lawsuits. We all need to be cautious in the next few months of...

Patch your Droid today!

by | Sep 5, 2017 | News

According to a recent Cybersecurity Advisory from the Multi-state Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), “Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Android OS Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution” MS-ISAC OVERVIEW: Multiple vulnerabilities have...

IRS & FBI Themed Ransomware Attack

by | Aug 29, 2017 | News

The IRS issued a warning on a FBI and IRS ransomware scam taking computer data hostage.  The scam uses the IRS and FBI crests.  The letter asks the user to complete the questionnaire and click the “here”  link.  This link will download a ransomware...

Hurricane Harvey Charity Scam

by | Aug 28, 2017 | News

Cyber scammers are using the Hurricane Harvey disaster to trick people to click on links on Facebook, Twitter and phishing emails. Some Examples to watch out for: Facebook pages dedicated to victim relief that contain links to scam websites. Tweets are going out with...

Employees Pose a Greater Risk

by | Aug 24, 2017 | News

While cyber criminals receive a lot of attention and generate headlines, the threat coming from within an organization, whether malicious or not, may be greater. Employees and contractors that are provided access to a company’s network infrastructure without proper...