Network Security

In the early days of December 2022, a French hospital got busy for a different reason. The André-Mignot teaching hospital had just suffered ransomware attacks, forcing them to drastically change their routines. It had to move some of its critical patients to other hospitals. It also stopped accepting walk-ins and canceled some surgeries. Patients had

Why should companies keep their software patched? Not all businesses close because of insufficient cash flow or low sales. Others do so because of a data breach. In 2014, Code Space, a growing code-hosting startup, left the competition after a significant DDoS attack wiped out its database and backup. The costs of resolving the problem

In 2017, the National Health Service, UK’s largest public health service, came to a screeching halt. The country’s official report suggested that at least 80 healthcare facilities and 603 primary care had to shut down or limit their services. The culprit? Email scams and phishing.   Although no study reported related mortalities, the event resulted in

A huge part of the things we do in our day-to-day lives can now be done online – from shopping, business correspondence, and keeping in touch with friends, to bank transactions and bills payment. The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded this list of online activities and has proven that even medical consultations, children’s classes, and certain