Entries by SecureTech

Here are some tips, secrets of professional hackers

I probably sound like a broken record when I say to be careful of scammers who are pretending to be authorities. Or to beware if an email or a phone call has information that seems too good to be true or has a sense of urgency to help someone in a serious bind.  We all […]

Defense Contractors Highly Susceptible to Ransomware

Even as cybercriminals take aim at critical infrastructure, many of the United States’ top 100 federal contractors are inadequately prepared to repel ransomware attacks. These were among the findings of a report from Black Kite, which assessed the cybersecurity risk posture of U.S. defense contractors and found 20% of the country’s largest 100 contractors were […]

Iranian hackers, posing as Proud Boys, tried to disrupt 2020 election, feds say

A pair of Iranian hackers ran a sophisticated online campaign aimed at interfering with last year’s presidential election by threatening and influencing American voters, federal officials said Thursday. As part of their campaign, the conspirators got confidential U.S. voter information from at least one state election website and sent threatening email messages to intimidate people […]

Guardicore steps in against ransomware attacks with latest release

Guardicore has released new features to reduce the complexity of segmentation policy creation and enforcement to more effectively secure complex enterprise environments against ransomware attacks. According to Forrester’s New Tech: Microsegmentation, Q3 2021 report, “Ransomware, once it gets into a network perimeter via phishing or other threat vector, spreads internally through SMB exploits… and RDP […]