In late 2019, a telemarketing company in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area fell prey to a crippling ransomware attack. The company employed about 300 people when hackers demanded payment to restore ...

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Data is one of the most important possessions we have these days. Whether it’s crucial documents for work or those irreplaceable photos and videos of the kids, these digital files are precious and ...

Healthcare institutions have become a favorite target for bad actors, largely because of how easy they make it for attackers. In June, researchers discovered a healthcare data breach that exposed the ...

Windows 11's Controlled Folder Access offers a simple yet effective way to protect locally stored data from ransomware, even when AppLocker isn't in play. When it comes to data storage, I have long ...

2024 delivered some good news and bad news in the area of cybercrime. Malware-based ransomware attacks dropped for the third year in a row. But instances of infostealer malware grew dramatically.

Immutable backup storage is the best ransomware protection Research shows backups are almost always targeted in ransomware attacks Ransomware is on the rise already in 2025 Ransomware attacks in the ...

Enable and configure Windows 11's Controlled Folder Access to add a layer of protection against ransomware targeting locally stored data. In the first part of this series, I talked about how the ...

Cyberattacks on financial service providers are no longer isolated events. In recent years, tax preparation companies, accounting software vendors and data brokers have all found themselves in the ...

Ransomware is at an inflection point, and so are enterprises using cyber-resilient solutions to recover known good copies of ...

Hackers frequently seek to exploit smaller merchants who don’t have the resources or knowledge as larger enterprises to protect their data. Only 14% of small businesses claim to have a cybersecurity ...