Keep Yourself Safe from Catfishing
Keep Yourself Safe from Catfishing Catfishing is when someone pretends to be someone else online to trick you into forming a relationship, whether it is a friendship or something more romantic. These online scammers want to make you believe they’re genuine so they can take advantage of you financially, get your details, or cause […]
How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware
Following a recent ransomware attack, officials in Riviera Beach City, Florida agreed to pay hackers’ demands of $600,000 in an effort to retrieve their encrypted data. This occurs as thousands of others in the US and worldwide are flooded with similar cyber attacks—in recent news: Atlanta, Baltimore, as well as 5 healthcare clinics and dozens […]
Ransomware, Anyone? Here We Go, Again!
News reports over the past two hours have started showing up from all over the world, reporting that another aggressive ransomware virus is making its way from country to country, primarily in the form of an e-mail attachment. (As usual) This time, it reportedly began as an infected Microsoft Excel data file, which upon execution […]
FREE CyberSecurity Workshop On June 23rd – SPONSORED BY SBDC
The Central Virginia Small Business Development Center is sponsoring and hosting a FREE workshop to educate small businesses about the risks of online scams, hackers, viruses and other vulnerabilities that put their data at risk. PJ Networks will present a prepared PowerPoint slide show, and then a panel of security specialists and local business owners […]
WannaCry Ransomware Virus: What You Need To Know
CyberSecurity companies around the world are having to contend with WannaCry, the latest version of ransomware that is reportedly based on code originally developed by the NSA, but was let loose in the wild by a group known as the Shadow Brokers. This has been one of the most aggressive and fast-spreading viruses in computer […]
FBI ALERT: Ransomware infections are on the rise
The FBI has issued new warnings about the latest ransomware that is infecting systems around the world. Ransomware is a type of infection that encrypts your files, making them unreadable, and in order to recover your data files you have to pay a fee to the hackers who created the virus. The latest ransomware is […]