Is it Ransomware with a shotgun approach? A shotgun approach means the attackers are sending ransomware attacks to many computers – not picking their targets, only spreading out to whatever computer will answer a certain defense profile. Or ransomware that is targeted to specific industries? Will the ransomware attacker pick on a specific industry that … Read more
What if people took vaccines with Inoculation rates of the cybersecurity industry? So the inoculation rates of a typical vaccine was and is 90% – 95% and that is how most of the old diseases were actually eradicated. My point is that what if people treated Cybersecurity like they should we would have less people … Read more
Yes it is patch Tuesday this week – this means that Microsoft has released a number of patches and thus others do as well. So that the administrators can schedule their downtime once instead of more times than that. Let’s check Internet Storm Center today: So it means we have 99 vulnerabilities, of which one … Read more
If you upgrade then we also benefit – since now your machine cannot be used by criminals to attack other machines. How can we help you understand to upgrade your system( i.e. Patch – install vulnerability fixes)? This has been attempted before on this site – in the following post: https://oversitesentry.com/small-businesses-do-not-get-hacked/ of course businesses can … Read more
What is Cybersecurity? (updated image with yellow text for better contrast – 2/25/20) Cybersecurity is the security of computers, phones, any devices with computer pieces in them (IoT – Internet of Things). Cybersecurity definition as stated by Merriam-Webster : measures taken to protect a computer or computer system (as on the Internet) against unauthorized access … Read more
