Cybersecurity

On Tuesday, the FBI’s Cyber Division issued a warning to businesses and law enforcement agencies about potential computer vulnerabilities that led to the February 5 hacking of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. The event was the latest headline-making reminder for business leaders about the dangers of assuming their companies are immune from an increasingly common type of…

Many data breaches start with a phishing email, but credential phishing can also occur via other communication channels such as instant messaging platforms or SMS messages. One often overlooked way for credentials to be obtained is phishing over the telephone. These phishing attacks, termed vishing, can give attackers the credentials…

A new coalition of cybersecurity and tech groups is looking to create a roadmap for countering the surge of ransomware attacks that plagued city governments, schools and hospitals in 2020. “You see ransomware as not just an increasing security threat, it is to the level of now where it’s putting…

It is very unfortunate to see a Report from an Information and Privacy Commissioner in one of Canada’s provinces right at the beginning of a new year. Yet, there are lots of learnings.  Canadian privacy regulators prepare extremely well documented and articulated reports, chock-full of advice and guidance we should…

Just a few weeks ago several federal agencies, including the HHS and the FBI, issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning healthcare organizations about an increased and imminent cybercrime threat from Russian criminal groups targeting hospitals with Ryuk ransomware. We at CyberMaxx have also issued threats to our customers warning of Maze ransomware…

The U.S. intelligence agencies including the National Security Council (NSC), the FBI, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have jointly established the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate the investigation and remediation of recent cyber incidents involving federal government networks. The UCG stated…

If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China. Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years,…

The staff here at SecureOps is consistently asked the purpose and the differences between vulnerability scans, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests – including all the variations of both such as red teaming, capture the flag exercises, bug bounty programs and more. Our goal in this blog post is to work…

During his recent Fancy That! Conversations That Change Our World session, Sire surprised us with a true gift: a clear explanation of what cybersecurity is in today’s world. We extracted that 2 minute explanation and we think you will enjoy this:   To watch Sire’s entire session with Bashir Fancy…

With 1 in 3 employees believing the cybersecurity of their company is a moderate or major problem, decision-makers must do more to reassure them. Especially since remote work is now a big part of the workplace. And as more people work from home, digital security will become even more important…