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Ransomware Examples - Locky is Back and Worse Than Ever!
by Geoff Yeagley on October 5, 2017 at 9:48 AM
For a period of about 18 months, Ransomware dominated the news related to information security. Companies of all sizes and verticals were under attack by cybercriminals that were looking to make a quick buck, or a lot of bucks in some cases. Then, all of the sudden, Ransomware sort of …
Bluetooth Security - What You Need to Know About the BlueBorne Attack
by Geoff Yeagley on September 20, 2017 at 9:00 AM
Think about how much we use Bluetooth daily. Whether we are connecting our smartphones to a wireless speaker, to our car to make handsfree calls or to our Apple Watch, we use Bluetooth on a very frequent basis. In the world of Information Security, the more you use something and the m …
Federal Contractors and Subcontractors - Complying with NIST 800-171
by Geoff Yeagley on September 18, 2017 at 8:30 AM
With just under 3 months left to go in the year, contractors and subcontractors that provide products and/or services to the Federal Government are scrambling to meet its end of year deadline or risk losing the ability to work on government contracts.
Urgent Alert - New Spear Phishing Attack
by Geoff Yeagley on August 15, 2017 at 11:10 AM
It has come to our attention that cyber criminals have begun exploiting a vulnerability within Microsoft PowerPoint’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) interface to evade antivirus detection in an attempt to silently install malware applications on Windows based computer systems.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework - The Detect Function
by Geoff Yeagley on August 2, 2017 at 2:10 PM
We are in our third part in a six-part series talking about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the core, or functions, of the framework. In the last 2 posts, we talked about the Identify and Protect functions of the framework and used the analogy of building a house. When you build …
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework - The Protect Function
by Geoff Yeagley on July 19, 2017 at 10:43 AM
For the second part of our series on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, we are going to be discussing the Protect function. Last time we discussed the Identify function which talked about the need to really understand your critical infrastructure, your systems, and the risks associated …