According to security software maker, Symantec, 43 percent of all cyber attacks in 2015 targeted small businesses. This makes sense when you apply the law of the jungle. Predators go for the easy prey. Small businesses often operate on shoestring budgets, which means they focus their resources on the most […]

Not so long ago, in a galaxy near you, hackers made their living by breaking into computer networks to steal information they could use to redistribute the wealth of others to themselves. Things like credit card numbers and bank accounts and social security numbers. But that’s a multistep process. First […]

OK, so you know what ransomware is and how it holds your data hostage until you fork over whatever amount the datanappers demand. But how do you actually pay the ransom? It’s not like the cyber criminal is going to take a check, after all. And unlike in Mel Gibson’s […]

Imagine some cyber thug capturing and holding your irreplaceable computer data for ransom: your photos, your financials, your personal information, your contacts and correspondences. They give you a deadline by which time you must transfer a specified sum of money to the data-napper or else your data will be destroyed. […]

Firewall, check. Antivirus, check. Antimalware, check. Think your computer is safe from hackers? Check again. Sure all those measures provide protection and they are all essential. But they all pretty much work because they already know about and recognizing the bad stuff. That’s why, for example, you regularly have to […]

Small businesses often keep everything on a single computer and rarely have sufficient backups.  IF/when something happens to the computer, they are often at a loss as what to do.  They are a prime target for RansonWare writers. PC Condom not only blocks WCry, which is the most recent ransomware […]