During an age, where 66% of small-to-medium sized businesses' have reported experiencing a cyber attack in the past 12 months, per Ponemon Institute's State of Cybersecurity Report, it is critical that cybersecurity awareness and best practices are spread throughout users beyond technical roles.

Google's Threat Analysis Group has been made aware of a zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer which is  an infection of South Korean targets with malware. Google Tag was made aware of the attack on October 31st when multiple users submitted samples of the malware to VirusTotal.

Windows 7/8 support ends in January 2023. Microsoft has announced that Edge browser  also will end support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 in mid-January. Not only is this for operating system security patches but also Microsoft Edge Webview2, which is Edge's rendering engine to embed webpages in non-Edge apps.

Cyberthreats are becoming more sophisticated every day, and if your business isn’t taking steps to protect itself from these threats, it faces a high risk of falling victim. This can cause you to lose valuable data or even go out of business. In this blog post, we will discuss what proactive cybersecurity is and how it can help protect your business against ever-evolving cyberthreats.

Email is one of the most essential business tools today. It enables swift, efficient communication within a company and with their customers and partners. Email’s popularity among businesses is what makes it a target for hackers looking to get ahold of critical business and client information.

A penetration test, also known as a pentest, is a security assessment that simulates the activities of real-world attackers to identify security holes in your IT systems or applications. The goal of this test is to understand what vulnerabilities you have, how they can be exploited, and what the impact would be if the attacker was successful.

Fortinet is urging customers to patch their appliances immediately following a recent authentication bypass vulnerability. Security researchers shared a proof of concept exploit and technical root cause analysis. Later the exploit code was released and almost immediately attackers started scanning for unpatched Fortinet devices.

Google announced Manifest V3 in 2019 as a new capabilities and permissions framework for Chrome extensions. This new manifest would introduce stricter rules to upgrade user data security and privacy. Manifest V3 hopes to achieve the following:

Limit extension access to user network requests
Force developers to include all functionality within extension which stops the practice of hosting code remotely.

Over the past few months, our team has heard from some of our customers that they are seeing macros that previously worked just fine are now getting blocked by Microsoft Office. Yes, this is TRUE. Microsoft has taken the stance that files from the internet can be dangerous because they could contain malicious macros.

For many, the internet is an important part of their everyday lives. They use it for shopping, banking, and keeping in touch with loved ones and friends. A lot of people, however, are not aware of the many cyberthreats that can steal sensitive information or corrupt their data.