Zuma Technology

10/11/2021

Microsoft is introducing a password-less future. The company announced that it will introduce a "passwordless account" option for all users of several popular services such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive in the coming weeks. Are you for or against a passwordless future?

Microsoft has a solution for the familiar problem of needing to remember too many passwords: doing away with them altogether.

06/29/2021

Ransomware attacks continue to grow at ​lightning fast speeds. Paying the bad actors for ransomware does not guarantee your data will be returned back to normal or in full. The FBI director is warning to not pay for any hijacked data. What type of cybersecurity plan do you have in place in case of a cyber attack?

Don’t ever pay hackers' ransomware demands, FBI Director Christopher Wray advised. But is a non-payment stance vs. ransomware possible?

06/21/2021

Windows 11 is around the corner! Check out the leaked interface. Microsoft will be announcing the new OS on Thursday 6/24.

Screenshots reveal new Start menu and taskbar design.

06/04/2021

Cyberattacks continue to rise at a rapid pace. Small and medium businesses are targeted more often due to the lack of security implementations.

It seems like every other day cybercriminals go after a new industry and disrupt people’s lives. And with each new attack, cybersecurity experts offer words of caution: It could get a lot worse, and it probably will.

05/20/2021

The pandemic pushed many of us to work from home and adapt to a new work environment. Unfortunately, cybercriminals continue to look for ways to manipulate home workers with scams. As we collected data with our existing customers, we used the data to write up a blog post about how to keep your home environment safe from cybercriminals.

A lot of us have pivoted working from home and had to adapt to new working spaces. We cover 20 easy to implement working from home security tips.

05/18/2021

As evidenced by the onslaught of ransomware attacks and data breaches making the news almost daily throughout 2020 and 2021, cybercriminals have been working overtime during the pandemic. Find out why and how can you remain vigilant to cyber scams.

https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-guests/pandemic-reinforces-unified-endpoint-security-ues-requirements/

04/28/2021

Spam was inevitably going to increase during the early parts of the pandemic. Phishers exploited the COVID-19-caused pandemic targeting users with to good to be true streaming service offers. We discussed early on in the pandemic on scams to watch out for.

https://www.zumatech.com/coronavirus-covid-19-3-scams-to-watch-out-for/

04/20/2021

Organizations are becoming more educated on what to look for in terms of viruses and malware. How would you rate your company's cybersecurity training? FireEye, Inc. discusses how business' are becoming better at recognizing unwelcome digital guests.

Organizations are getting better at detecting cybersecurity incidents on their own FireEye Mandiant research finds. But, these challenges remain.

03/30/2021

Overall, 58 percent of security professionals in the Vectra study said that the gap between attackers & defenders is widening, sparked by a shift to the cloud and the COVID-19 fueled turn to remote working.

Fully 71 percent of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered account takeovers in the past year, Vectra research results reveal.

03/24/2021

Another ransomware operation known as 'Black Kingdom' is exploiting the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to encrypt servers.

Over the past weekend, security researcher Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, tweeted that a threat actor was compromising Microsoft Exchange servers via the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware.

Another ransomware operation known as 'Black Kingdom' is exploiting the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to encrypt servers.

03/17/2021

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

03/16/2021

If you're a power user of Zoom and consistently use breakout rooms for smaller group interactions, Microsoft Teams released a new feature to incorporate breakout rooms.

During meetings, the meeting organizer can create breakout rooms to bring participants into small groups for lively conversation and brainstorming sessions.