What Are You Doing To Combat Ransomware In Your Business? in addition are your employees following protocol? Are your computer systems up to date? 3 questions you should be asking yourself.

Ransomware Encounters

Windows defender antivirus showed a peak of 85,000 encounters were registered in August of 2016. As a result Ransomware dropped 50 percent in September due to anti malware..

What a Decline!

Though Ransomware has dropped 50 percent in 2016, does that mean it’s gone for good? Seems like the number of Ransomware families being released suggests not.

Microsoft monitoring showed a quarterly review of last years Ransomware attacks. Revealing that 500 million spam emails contained Ramsomware that attempted to install malware.

Unfortunately

These Ransomware down-loaders did affect over 13.4 million computers in 2016 and exploit kits such as Meadgive and Neutrino still deliver a primary payload of Ransomware.

Such a globally used Malware with 13.4 million computers infected is a big problem. in addition to sophisticated code and family Ransomware, One might think whats next?

Is There a Way Out?

Campaigns such as Samas are targeting server vulnerabilities while Zcryptor was given worm like abilities allowing it to move around computer systems after infecting one.

What Are You Doing To Combat Ransomware In Your Business?

Tactics to improve Anti-Ransomware is improving as well. Trying to intercept the Ransomware before it can do harm to your systems in key. Consequently are you doing whats necessary?

It is easy to say, “That will never happen to me” but then the next day your calling your IT company or rushing to look for a number to call because you have a Malware virus demanding money.

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New Mac Malware records Sessions during your video Chats. Are you aware of this? Is there anything to be done about this new Mac malware that could be exploited vastly?

Tape Proof

Mark Zuckerberg tapes he’s laptop, you could too but once the tape comes off your still vulnerable to this Malware attack. Which gives a hacker the opportunity to record your session.

Spying on You

Patrick Wardle, a former NASA Director devised an attack that monitors your Mac activities while your using your webcam, which is clever since you’d never notice since the green light is on.

Wardle says that the webcam indicator light on Macs is hardware based. It’s not possible to power up the webcam and hide it from the user, as it can be done on other devices

Since the green indicator light is on, this new Mac Malware can record video and audio sessions without detection. That gives users no warning that a Third-party can record everything.

You may not recognize Wardle but he’s exposed how the dating app Grindr leaked user location data, and how Apple was slow to patch a security flaw that Microsoft handled years earlier in Windows.

Mac Malware records Sessions during your video Chats

This new Malware for Mac could do even more harm because it can act as leverage by recording technologies and APIs that are already in the operating system so that the malware wouldn’t be detected or blocked.

The End Result

Covering your Webcam endorsed by Mark Zuckerberg seems like the best way to handle it but it may be time to check with your IT provider as it is a new Malware problem that may concern you.

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How do you Handle Scammers phishing for Information? You’ve gotten a call from an unknown number, the person on the other line is asking for important credentials. What is the company’s proper procedure?

What some Experts do

Florian Lukavsky, director of app security services firm SEC Consult, who himself has scammed a group of whalers at their own game, by sending them an infected PDF that he said was a transaction confirmation.The malware harvested personal information.

Is it Wise to play with Scammers

Since most of us are not experts in this field and unless you have the co-operation of police, its best to stay out of it and leave it to the experts or the government.

Does the Government do anything

Of course, Law enforcement, military and intelligence operatives are all authorized to intrude on targets, and there is a difference since they have approval from a higher level chain of command.

Attacking back

Imagine if everyone was attacking back. It would turn into the wild west not knowing who’s right or wrong, innocent parties would get caught in the cross fire.

How do you Handle Scammers phishing for Information

To identify the scammer or hacker in this particular scenario is key to disengaging the problem immediately at hand. It is the best way to protect yourself and company. Honestly it is a lot less work.

Is there a Backup Plan

In this day in age having a back up plan is just the way of life. Someone in the company is going to mess up and important credentials are going to get out. what do you do?

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Critical Security Updates for Apple iOS Users were released recently. Apple is highly recommending this update because of some very important security holes. Which are:

• WebKit bug: visited a malicious crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution.
• Kernel bug: an app may be able to disclose kernel memory.
• Kernel bug: an app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Vulnerabilities

It was believed that “digital arms dealers” were able to read messages, track calls and contacts, record sounds, collect passwords and location information.

Why it is so Important

Imagine how bad things can get with just these three options hackers can play with, what they can do. It leaves them with many loop holes to leave user-level malware on your iDevice.

Reported Claims

There are multiple hackers out there. reports show a group who uses a “one click jailbreak”, is an Israeli company called NSO Group that sells exploits and hacking services, which are just one of many that use such loop holes.

Who’s Eligible

Keep in mind if it is an older phone you may not be eligible so here is a look over of who is:  iPhone 4s and later, iPad 2 and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later. You should ensure all you IOS devices are up to date.

We Suggest

At times things can go wrong, we all know that, but making a backup of your device before you update it is a sure way plan to make sure you don’t lose any personal or important data well you are updating your iPhone.

New Critical Security Update for Apple iOS Users

Apple wants you to do it Wirelessly so if a message says that an update is available, tap Install Now. You can also follow these steps:

• Plug your device into power and connect to the Internet with Wi-Fi.
• Tap Settings > General > Software Update
• Tap Download and Install. If a message asks to temporarily remove apps because iOS needs more space for the update, tap Continue or Cancel. Later, iOS will reinstall apps that it removed. If you tap Cancel, learn what to do next.
• To update now, tap Install. Or you can tap Later and choose Install Tonight or Remind Me Later. If you tap Install Tonight, just plug your iOS device into power before you go to sleep. Your device will update automatically overnight.
• If asked, enter your passcode. If you don’t know your passcode, learn what to do.

Finding that this is not working for you? There is a step by step for updating through iTunes in the Read More Button below.

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