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A Jersey Hospital Pays $670k to Criminals in Order to Protect Patient Data
To prevent a major data leak, the University Hospital New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, paid $670,000 to dissolve a ransomware attack (source)....
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Cybersecurity Survey Reveals that Organizations Previously Hit by Ransomware Are Forever Changed
A new global survey titled “Cybersecurity: The Human Challenge” (reference) essentially found that organizations are never the same after they’ve...
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Cybersecurity Hubris During the Work From Home Era
Ever since work-from-home (WFH) skyrocketed in March following COVID-19 pandemic lock-downs, corporate cybersecurity has taken a front seat in the...
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5 Cybersecurity Tips for Dental Practices
Among the large variety of industries we currently work with and have worked with in the past, we have helped several dental practices set up proper...
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Ransomware Accounts for 41% of Cyber Insurance Claims In the First Half of 2020
One thing is for sure, when it comes to ransomware, it does not care what industry you’re in: everyone is at risk. In the first quarter of 2020,...
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Email Threads Are Being Used Maliciously in Automated Attacks
Beware: if you’re infected by the QBot Trojan, it’s possible to have your email threads (the chain of back and forth emails in any given email...
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August Microsoft Patch Tuesday Critical Update – Zerologon Active Directory Attack is Severe
Microsoft’s August patch Tuesday Windows Updates included the following gem that’s described as “one of the most severe bugs ever reported to...
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38% of Surveyed Small Businesses Budget Less than $1000 a Year Toward Cybersecurity
COVID-19 has caused a growing strain on small to medium-sized businesses due to a greater need for cybersecurity in an increasingly remote work era....
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Hacker Tracker | August in Review
Where are we in the world of cybersecurity? It’s easy to miss the cybersecurity threats and attacks happening right in our “backyard”. Our goal at PK...
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Study Predicts Managed Service Providers Will See a Boom Post-Pandemic
A recent study predicts that managed service providers (such as us, PK Tech) are likely to see a boom in demand post-coronavirus. For many Managed...