What is Tailgating? Tailgating , sometimes called piggybacking, is where an unauthorized individual follows an authorized individual into a restricted area. In the business world, it is when someone has to use a badge to open a door. In the private world it can involve a gated community, or an apartment building where you have […]
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Log4j (or Log4shell) Vulnerability On December 9, 2021 reports of a vulnerability in Apache Log4j hit the scene. Sending the cyber security professionals scrambling. Within 24 hours there over 200,000 attack attempts detected and then over 800,000 attacks detected within 72 hours. It has been two months since the first report and attack attempts have
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What is Ransomware Ransomware is a subset of malware, it can be as simple as someone threatening to publish information about you or lock your system so you can not use it. When ransomware attacks were first noticed, they targeted individuals. As criminals realized that businesses were a more lucrative target, most attacks are now
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