If you have a contact form on your business’s website, you’ll be used to getting emails with a subject line that says "A web form was submitted." There’s a new technique that cyber criminals are employing to launch ransomware attacks. And you need to...

29 March, 2022

The average office worker sends and receives around 121 emails every day. And while that sounds like a lot, what’s more shocking is that 3 billion phishing emails are sent each day. They account for 1% of all email traffic. What’s a phishing email? It’s...

21 March, 2022

5 steps to improve your ransomware resilience Ransomware is the most terrifying data security threat your business has ever faced. Imagine all your staff trying to login one morning. But all of them get a bright red screen saying your data has been locked away, and you...

24 February, 2022

Microsoft’s recently revealed that more than 35.7 billion malicious emails were sent to its customers last year. Fortunately for us, the tech giant blocked 1,000 of these malicious emails every second of 2021. That’s about 31.5 million seconds....

18 February, 2022

If you’re the type of person who installs security updates on all of your devices as soon as they become available, don’t start polishing your halo just yet. Microsoft’s just released a piece of information which might explain why your Windows machine is STILL out-of-date…...

16 February, 2022

How to keep your business’s data safe during the Work From Home revolution Working From Home and hybrid working are here to stay. And that means as businesses, we need to get a grip on security in our staff’s homes as much as we do in...

11 February, 2022

Last month there were rumors that a password manager called LastPass had some of its customers’ master passwords compromised. LastPass denies this and states that the recent attacks are a result of shared passwords gleaned from breaches of other services, or perhaps warnings sent in error. Do...

08 February, 2022

There’s a cyber-crime called phishing. You’ve probably heard about it by now. It’s a major pain. Criminals send hundreds of thousands of emails per day pretending to be someone they’re not.  And they’re just hoping that one of your people will click a link that’s...

04 February, 2022

Traditional backup methods, such as tape, disk, or online only, are no longer sufficient. In fact, leading edge business owners are finding them unacceptable, due to their inability to recover data quickly and mitigate downtime....

17 December, 2015

You are sitting at a neighborhood bistro waiting on a friend. They are running late, and so you decide to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi and surf the net on your phone. As you scroll through your emails, you remember you need to pay...

10 December, 2015

The purpose of this virus alert is to inform and educate you, as well as encourage you to remain vigilant against malware. We continue to experience isolated incidents of CryptoLocker and its variants, a type of virus known as “ransomware”....

17 September, 2015

We are issuing this security notice to alert our customers to a fraudulent wire transfer technique that some of our customers have encountered this week. The technique is called spear phishing and relies upon email messages posing as urgent communications from senior officers to lower...

01 May, 2015