Although the industry acknowledges a decline in the number of ransomware attacks in 2018, this news isn’t anything to get excited about. The trend has moved from targeting individuals via mass email campaigns to companies by way of manual attacks. Perhaps the reason for this is security awareness programs have been effective, and end users
Congratulations! Your team just procured the latest innovative technology that’s really going to deliver exceptional outcomes. You kick off the project, expectations are high and everyone’s excited. 12 months later, you’ve been live for 4 months and the outcomes are far from exceptional. Your reputation took a big hit and you’ve left wondering how it
Well, at least cybercrime does. In fact, it turns out that it pays well. Bromium published a report in 2018 in which it asserted: “High-earning cyber criminals can make $166,000+ per month; Middle-earners can make $75,000+ per month; Low-earners can make $3,500+ per month.” That is serious money for the high and middle earners. For
I was just speaking with a colleague about the news that Google has been fined the largest penalty to date for failing to comply with GDPR obligations. The penalty was around $56 million USD, but the Marriott data breach penalty is estimated to be around $1 billion. Why such a discrepancy between the two? That
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