The entrepreneurial spirit and technology acumen of the United States provide reason for optimism in the fight against cybercriminals, said former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. At the helm of the FBI from September 2001 through September 2013, Mueller came to view cybercrime as a top threat to the U.S., but when organizations pulled…
The makers of endpoint security solutions must deal with a constantly changing threat landscape and new attack types, but ransomware has evolved beyond nearly any threat we’ve seen before. It’s the next generation of malicious code, and it’s pandemic. An organization that fails to establish a plan of defense against ransomware is essentially leaving its…
The WannaCry ransomware attack has been big news since Friday, May 12, 2017, and organizations are scurrying to understand and mitigate the risk from this attack. The following is a very quick summary of the attack and specific action steps you can take to help protect your organization. This type of ransomware is unique because…
In a span of 30 years, the average person in the United States has gone from explicitly asking the phone company to not publish their phone number in the phone book to sharing every intimate detail of their life on social media. It seems people have lost the understanding of the value of privacy. It is…
The volume of cybersecurity threats that organizations face has become overwhelming. At CDW’s recent Managing Risk Summit in Washington, D.C., leading security experts described how cybercriminals continue to use innovative techniques, including malware, ransomware and compromised credentials, to gain access to enterprise networks and compromise valuable data. “How do you think hackers think of their…
As part of its Penetration Testing services, the CDW Security Assessment team analyzes passwords – A LOT of passwords. Whenever we are able to obtain administrator privileges through our testing, which is most of the time on internal assessments, we perform an analysis of password security. We start the process by “dumping” the encrypted passwords…
