Heroic Technologies

Day in and day out, employees hear the same things from their IT staff about cybersecurity and safety. Though they may sound like a broken record, there are essential reasons and rationale behind these practices and advice. Keeping safe and secure while connected isn't just about how your system is set up - it is also very much about how you end up using it. Below, we discuss some common IT staff wisdom and provide some background information and the rationale as to why it definitely merits your attention. Make sure you lock your screen when you are away from your desk: Screen-locking policies exist for a reason. Even if you are leaving for just a few minutes at a time, be sure to lock your screen. Though physical intruders are rare during the daytime and in conventionally secured offices, intrusions do occasionally happen. Screen locks also thwart opportunistic insider attacks from other employees who seek to obtain information or access information beyond what they should normall...

  5 Most Dangerous Ransomware Ransomware Warning Major types of Ransomware: Crypto Ransomware – Encrypts valuable or important files on a computer so that the user cannot access them. Locker Ransomware – Locks the user files and prevents access to data and files available on the PC. Top Five Ransomware attacks: 1.  WannaCry: It encrypts files on the PC’s hard drive after attacking a windows computer and makes it inaccessible for the user. To decrypt the files attacker demands a ransom payment in bitcoin. (Bitcoin- so as no one can trace where the money is going). 2.  Bad Rabbit: It spreads through the ‘drive-by’ method, which means a user visits an authentic/ legitimate website, unaware of the fact that they have been compromised by a hacker.  3.   Petya: It encrypts the victim’s entire hard drive and it does this by encrypting the Master File Table (MFT) thus making it impossible to access files on the disk. Basically, it spreads through HR departments (vi...