In another interesting example of what happens when you don't manage your backups correctly, the Licking County government offices, including the police force, have been shut down by ransomware.

Internet fraud has been around for just about as long as the Internet itself. According to a Kaspersky Lab 2016 Report, each year, cybercriminals come up with new techniques and tactics to fool their potential victims.

The 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) highlights key information related to social engineering.

According to Netswitch Technology Management, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) kill-chain looks like the following:

To improve your cyber security and successfully prevent, detect and resolve advanced persistent threats, you need to know how APTs work:

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns comprise a growing part of the current threat landscape. Some APT campaigns remain active, in fact, even after drawing extensive

Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking unauthorized access to confidential data. Spear phishing messages appear to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-known company or website with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, the appa

Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive informative such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing is the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information for malicious reasons.

Semi-annually, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) publishes the Phishing Activity Trends Report.