Today, all businesses are trying to achieve cyber resilience, or in layman’s terms, an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber attacks. Cyber resilience emerged as a practice over the last few years when traditional cyber security measures stopped being enough to protect organizations from threats. In order for organizations to…
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Hackers are waging a guerrilla war on tech companies, revealing secrets and raising fears of collateral damage
A resurgence of ‘hacktivism’ has sought to portray cyberattacks as a moral crusade, but everyday users can also end up having their private information exposed A chain of recent, devastating hacks is exposing some of the Internet’s most fiercely guarded secrets, stepping up a guerrilla struggle between tech firms and anonymous hackers and raising fears…
12 Cyber Security Measures That Every Small Business Must Take
A rise in hybrid working has made businesses more vulnerable than ever to cyber crime. We show how to protect your company. Cyber security has been important to businesses since the internet existed. But as more and more workers shift to hybrid or fully remote work, the need for protecting your data and cloud-based systems…
Researchers Trick Locked iPhones Into Making $1300 Purchases
A team of academics figured out a way to trick the combination of Apple Pay and Visa cards into silently authorizing massive payments. Even though the iPhones the researchers tested were locked during the transactions they were able to pilfer £1,000 (about $1340). How did they do it? By tricking the iPhones into thinking they…
Stairwell secures $20M Series A to help organizations outsmart attackers
Image Credits: Andrzej Wojcicki / Getty Images Back when Stairwell emerged from stealth in 2020, the startup was shrouded in secrecy. Now with $20 million in Series A funding, its founder and CEO Mike Wiacek — who previously served as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company — is ready to talk. As…
Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users
Google Chrome is now used by approximately 2.65BN users as it dominates the web browser market. The problem with such dominance, however, is Chrome has become the number one target for hackers and now Google has had to issue another serious upgrade warning. In a new blog post, Google has revealed that two new ‘zero-day’…
Why Raptor? We make IT easy!
Single-Click Efficiency Consolidation. It’s a simple concept, really, and it’s something that we use in our daily lives all the time. So does Raptor IT. For example, imagine that you’re a person with more than a handful of credit cards – so much so that it’s starting to become difficult to maintain control of your…
This phishing email is pushing password-stealing malware to Windows PCs
An old form of trojan malware has been updated with new abilities, warn cybersecurity researchers. A phishing campaign is delivering a new variant of one of the oldest forms of remote access trojan (RAT) malware in an effort to steal usernames, passwords and other sensitive information. It also aims to steal cryptocurrency from the victim….