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The School’s Guide to Apps Students Are Using: Top 10 Most Popular & Dangerous

Technology plays a significant role in today’s classrooms. Unfortunately, anonymous messaging apps, random video chats, and other platforms that lock or hide other apps raise safety and security concerns for educators.  Despite efforts to educate students, they don’t always exercise good judgment. Some of the more commonly used apps among students exhibit safety concerns that …

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WannaCry: Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

As this is written, one of the largest cyberattacks in history is underway across the globe. 75,000 ransomware attacks in 99 countries are reported to be exploiting the Windows vulnerability "EternalBlue," which Microsoft had released a patch for earlier this year. The ...
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RAT infestation? The threat of Remote Access Trojans on Android devices

The return of the SpyNote RAT as a fake Netflix app in late January gave notice that Remote Access Trojans may be the next large scale cyber threat.  Originally surfaced in the summer of 2016, SpyNote is a robustly featured ...
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Unpacking Remote Access: What to look for when choosing the right solution

In the latest edition of PC Pro Magazine, contributing editor Dave Mitchell prefaces a glowing review of Impero Connect (you can read that review here) by breaking down exactly which features amount to a superior remote access solution for enterprise ...
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Best Practices to Protect the Retail Environment

The new year is here and with it comes new consumer behavior and demands. Retailers are incorporating in-store innovations to provide the best customer experience possible, making their retail infrastructure even more complex than before. With this in mind, we’ve ...
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POS Systems: The Proven Vulnerabilities

Ask yourself: if the retail infrastructure defense fails, what will be left to protect the POS systems?Retail infrastructure is very complex and thus hard to secure. Retailers cannot remain wholly unaffected by industry-fellows experience, and the attempts to define and ...
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Security Alert: Ransomware attacks via Facebook Messenger using Google Chrome extensions

A new wave of Ransomware targeting Facebook and Google Chrome users is in the public spotlight. Cybercriminals are attacking their victims by sending malicious Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images over Facebook Messenger. Facebook users can be easily fooled as the ...
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