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Understanding USB Flash Drive Security Risks and Forensics
by Danielle Corsa on August 15, 2023 at 1:00 PM
In the rapidly evolving landscape of corporate IT infrastructure, the use of USB devices in the workplace has become commonplace. While these devices offer flexibility and portability, they also bring a myriad of security concerns for organizations. The challenge lies in ensuring that …
Insider Threats – Your Employee May Be Your Greatest Risk
by Jake Dwares on June 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM
In February of 2018, Ashley Liles was working as an IT Security Analyst at an Oxford based company that suffered a ransomware attack. Ashley jumped at the opportunity, not to help the company, but to enrich himself by piggybacking on the initial ransomware attack and attempting to tri …
Businesses Can Learn From the Classified Pentagon Leak
by Jake Dwares on April 14, 2023 at 4:30 PM
On April 14th, 2023, 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira appeared in federal court, accused of leaking classified documents in a Discord group titled “Thug Shaker Central”. Facing charges under the 1917 Espionage Act, Jack is looking at potential decades in …
The Importance of IT Policies and Procedures
by Geoff Yeagley on October 17, 2016 at 12:00 PM
We talk all the time and hear in the news all the time about recent attacks that take place. Whether it is stolen credit card data or the latest strain of Ransomware that hits the market, most of the news that we hear has to do with bad actors stealing information from the outside.
Social Engineering - What You Need to Know
by Geoff Yeagley on January 19, 2016 at 11:04 AM
For those of us in the Information Security world, we hear terms thrown around all the time that are often interchanged, confused, and sometimes misused. One of those terms is Social Engineering. On the surface, this is a confusing term that doesn't appear to have anything to do with …
IT Security in 2016: What Comes Next?
by Geoff Yeagley on January 5, 2016 at 10:00 AM
The last several years in IT Security have been full of surprises as well as the fulfillment of predictions that have been made. If you recall back to 2014, the famed credit card breaches that took place were predicted by most and ultimately held true to form. We had a rash of major b …