Experts had Laremy Tunsil flagged as one of the top prospects in Thursday night’s NFL draft. But shortly before the opening pick, something disturbing happened. An incriminating video tweeted from...

DatAlert Analytics just got some new threat models. Our research laboratory is tracking new ransomware, finding vulnerabilities in common security practices, and setting up new threat models to keep your...

Hackers are able to break into systems and move around easily without being detected. How is this possible with so much invested in firewalls, malware scanners, and other intrusion detection...

Humans like to click on links. Some of us are better at resisting the urge, some worse. In any case, you’d also expect that people in the higher reaches of...

Table of Contents Ransomware strains that have been targeting hospitals Should your hospital pay? Reasons not to pay Would a ransomware infection be considered a breach, according to HIPAA? Are...

I really believe that an IT security person should master some of the programming concepts that go into malware. File that under “know your enemy”.

One metric that’s difficult to gauge when it comes to cybercrimes is the economic impact felt by companies. However, PwC took on this challenge and just released the results of...

Setting up network file sharing is one of those core IT practices that every Windows admin knows about and has implemented as part of their daily work. The basic mechanics...

Repeat after me: frameworks are not standards. They are instead often used as a guide to navigate through the underlying standards. There are lots of frameworks cropping up in the...

Cybercriminals who previously targeted Windows operating systems with ransomware have expanded their customer base to include the Mac OS. Known as KeRanger, it’s the first ransomware variant detected that infects...

In this series of posts, I covered ideas to get you started using basic testing software to find security vulnerabilities. There are more advanced tools, such as Metasploit, which lets...

When I wrote about Remote Access Trojans (RATs), I thought they were like the mousetraps of the hacking world — it’s hard to improve on. RATs let hackers get a...