Last week, there was a report about some school milk shortage that happened because of a cyber-attack. The cyber-attack happened on a dairy farm up in New England, in New Hampshire. It's the HP Hood Dairy farms. They are, apparently, the largest producer, or distributor, of carton milk products.

Today, we're going to talk about Zero-trust and how it applies to cybersecurity and why should it matter to you and your business! When it applies to cybersecurity, many people want to know what Zero-Trust is, why is it important, why do we even need to do it or why should we consider it? Zero-trust has been around for a while, but it's been, quite frankly, not the easiest thing to implement, especially from an administrator standpoint.

Without technology, businesses cannot compete and succeed. But with the advancement in technology comes the ever-constant threat of hackers and cybercriminals. That’s why small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) need to protect themselves with robust cybersecurity solutions managed by reputable managed IT services providers (MSPs).

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Through the years, the number of SMBs falling victim to cyberattacks has drastically increased.

Today, a cyberattack came out against a major vehicle manufacturer. Want to learn more? Well, you can learn who got hacked and find out what is actually going on.

Toyota, a major car manufacturer, out of Japan has recently announced that they've been hit with a cyberattack and they had to shut down operations.

Today’s blog post is on the Bridgestone Americas. The big tire manufacturer has come out that they had to shut down because of a cyber-attack, so let’s get into get into what's going on at Bridgestone.

Bridgestone manufacturers tires for cars and agricultural vehicles, major tire manufacturer and retreading company in, around the world.

Today we have a cyber-attack against a major shipping company called Expeditors, one of the largest in the world, are under a purported ransomware attack, a devastating ransomware attack, a very large-scale ransomware attack, and we're going to get into it right now.

Though fileless malware has been around much longer, it only became a mainstream method of cyberattack in 2017. With fileless malware, cybercriminals are able to use legitimate tools and services, such as existing software, applications, and authorized protocols, to carry out malicious activities like unauthorized data retrieval or data damage.

Modern web browsers and password managers come with a feature called password autofill. This helps users store and automatically use their account credentials to access websites and other applications. While password autofill is convenient, it comes with security risks.

How do people avoid ransomware attacks in 2022? It's early January 2022, there’s a ton of ransomware attacks out there right now. Cybercriminals ramped up at the beginning of 2021. Now, they are continuing through 2022. How can society stop these ransomware attacks, and how can people prevent themselves from being a victim of ransomware attack?

Well, unfortunately that answer is not so simple.

Today, this is going to be an update to the Buckeye cable company, the Buckeye Broadband ransomware attack or mail outage, where their customers' email were down due to ransomware. At the time, there was no knowledge of who their host was and that news surfaced before it was really known.