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How To Protect Your Data From Ransomware

Unless you avoided reading or listening to the news last year (and with everything going on in the world who can blame you), you no doubt heard reports of ransomware attack after ransomware attack occurring in 2017. This type of hacking issue, where cybercriminals break into individual or company systems and hold data for ransom, is rife right now, and according to one report, actually increased almost ten-fold last year. As such, no matter which industry you work in, and whether you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, contractor, or employee, it’s imperative to keep all your important information safe from prying eyes, and from downtimes as a result of it being held captive. Read on for some steps you can take to avoid a ransomware attack this coming year. Install Security Software and Firewalls First off, one of the simplest things you can do to protect your data is to install top-quality security software on all the devices you use. There are many different products on the market
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How Office 365 Data Can Be Protected From Ransomware

How to protect Office 365 data from ransomware attacks Given the broad scope of services Microsoft Office 365 provides, it's no surprise it has become one of the company's fastest growing revenue streams. Widespread popularity often breeds malicious activity, however, and Office 365 is no exception. Ransomware is growing at a mind boggling rate - Cisco estimated a 350% year over year growth rate in their 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Ransomware, in particular, has introduced significant risks for Office 365 users. Cerber ransomware, for example, targeted Office 365 and flooded end users' inboxes with an Office document that invoked malware via macros, and the now infamous WannaCry attack was engineered to take advantage of a Microsoft vulnerability. And now we have an even more insidious ransomware strain with ShurL0ckr - designed to evade the built in malware protection on OneDrive and Google Drive. Ransomware can be truly debilitating as it expands very quickl
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Check Out The Top 20 Least Corrupt Nations In The World

These are the 20 least corrupt countries on earth Transparency International on Wednesday published its latest Corruption Perceptions Index, a global ranking of fairness around the world. The ranking of 180 countries is based on the level of public sector corruption in 2017, according to businesspeople, journalists, and civic organisations. Higher-ranked countries tend to have more press freedom, access to information about public spending, and independent judicial systems. Countries are given a score out of 100, with those scoring highly being the least corrupt. Keep scrolling to see the list, which is ranked in ascending order. Transparency International =20. Japan — 73 =19. Ireland — 74 =18. USA— 75 =17. Belgium — 75 =16. Austria — 75 =15. Iceland — 77 =14. Hong Kong — 77 =13. Australia — 77 =12. Germany — 81 =11. UK — 82 =10 The Netherlands — 82 =9. Luxembourg — 82 =8. Canada — 82 =7. Sweden — 84 =6. Singapore — 84 =5. Switzerland — 85 =4
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Russian Hacked The Olympics And Trying Pining It On North Korea

Now that the 2018 Winter Olympics are over, we're now learning who was responsible for hacking the games' systems... and the culprit won't surprise you at all. US intelligence officials speaking anonymously to the Washington Postclaimed that spies at Russia's GRU agency had compromised up to 300 Olympics-related PCs as of early February, hacked South Korean routers in January and launched new malware on February 9th, the day the Olympics began. They even tried to make it look like North Korea was responsible by using North Korean internet addresses and "other tactics," according to the American sources. It's unclear if Russia was directly responsible for the chaos during the opening ceremony, which disrupted internet and broadcast systems to the point where some guests couldn't even print their tickets. However, the new evidence suggests Russia was in a prime position for such an attack. It also has the motivation: the country hasn't been shy a
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Check Out WhatsApp's New Features

WhatsApp has confirmed long-rumoured plans to roll-out its in-app payment system, allowing users to transfer money within the chat app. WhatsApp will now enable users to send money to one another inside the app WhatsApp will now enable users to send money to one another inside the app If you owe your friends money, WhatsApp has a simple new method to pay them back – without leaving your chat window. WhatsApp this week confirmed plans to bring wireless money transfers to its chat app. The rollout comes after a beta trial of the new peer-to-peer payment system was trialled on around one million WhatsApp users. The Facebook-owned messaging app will now push-out the functionality to every user in India – its biggest market, it has confirmed. WhatsApp started to launch a limited service in India, where it has currently holds more than 200 million users, last week. At present, India’s third-biggest lender ICICI Bank processes the fund transfers on WhatsApp. WhatsApp’s popular
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Beware Of Cryptojackers Hacking Your Website To Mine Cryptocurrencies

Cryptojackers are hacking websites to mine cryptocurrencies CNNMoney Hackers have a new trick up their sleeves: hijacking computers to generate digital coins. As bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices soar, "cryptojacking" attackers surreptitiously take over web browsers, phones and servers to make some serious profit. "Every avenue out there is being exploited on any kind of machine," said Jerome Segura, lead malware analyst at security firm Malwarebytes. "Consumer computers, servers, research centers - it has no bounds. We forecast it to be the biggest threat in 2018." Cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin and Monero, are created by using computing energy to solve complex math problems. When a problem is solved, a new piece of currency is made. This is called mining. Currencies can be mined legitimately, but criminals are increasingly turning to malevolent mining activities. In September 2017, Malwarebytes began tracking a major uptick in malicio
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Types Of Cyberattackers And How To Avoid Them

Protecting against cyberattacks requires both high-tech and low-tech efforts by financial firms, according to presentations at the 2018 FINRA Cybersecurity conference in New York on Thursday. First advisory firms need to answer four key questions, according to retired FBI agent Jeff Lanza, who was the keynote speaker:   •  Where are your assets?   •  What at your firm is subject to attack?   •  Can you detect an attack in real time?   •  Is cybersecurity a focus for your firm at the board level? "If you can't answer all four questions you're not doing enough to fight hackers," said Lanza, a former computer systems analyst before he was recruited by the FBI. He described the key types of attacks against financial firms - bank account takeovers through malware, CEO fraud involving unauthorized wire transfers, and ransomware, which has become epidemic - and offered tips to thwart such attacks. Takeovers Through Malware Before opening any email that doe
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