Both long established and newly flourishing businesses are undergoing the digital transformation that is increasingly important to success in the modern work environment. Beyond the advantages of connecting to your audience through the internet, the sheer improvements in terms of productivity, efficiency, and accuracy that IT can lend your business is not something to be understated.

Do you keep all of your data on the cloud?  If so, you're certainly not alone.  The past few years have seen a massive migration away from storing critical files locally to placing them on the cloud, where they're more secure and accessible from anywhere you can get internet.

Ransomware roared onto the global stage in 2017. Companies and government agencies around the world felt the impact with widespread campaigns like NotPetya and WannaCry.

By 2018, the number of ransomware attacks had begun to fall off while hackers found new tools to attack with, shifting toward cryptojacking, credential theft, and trojan malware.

Do you use the PDF Creator App called CamScanner?  If you do, you've got plenty of company.  Since the app was first published in 2010, it has been downloaded more than a hundred million times.

Unfortunately, Google recently pulled it from the Play store when they discovered that it began delivering malware to user devices.

There's some good news for Enterprise users who are still using Windows 7.  By now, almost everyone is aware that the company is bringing support for the aging operating system to a close.

The original time frame for formally ending support and for ending the issuance of security updates was set for as soon as January 2020.

Enterprise users, however, were given the option of paying for additional support for a limited window of time to give them a little longer to migrate away from Windows 7 and onto a more modern OS.  Unfortunately, that window is now rapidly closing too.

Hackers have used poisoned documents to deliver malware payloads for years. Recently though, researchers at the security company Cofense have spotted a new twist to the ploy, aimed squarely at HR departments. The recently detected campaign uses fake resume attachments to deliver Quasar Remote Administration Tool.

An old hacking technique is getting new attention from hackers around the world, and it underscores the fact that people must exercise extreme caution when it comes to deciding who to trust and where to download files from.

Hackers have long been in the business of spoofing legitimate sites; making exact replicas of popular websites offering a variety of free downloads.

The Internal Revenue Service recently issued a warning that all taxpayers should be aware of.

The agency has received a growing number of reports concerning unsolicited email messages bearing the subject lines:

Electronic Tax Return Reminder
Automatic Income Tax Reminder

These messages are not from the IRS, but rather, from spammers trying to steal your information.

There's another chapter in the ongoing MS Paint saga.

In case you missed the first part of the story, several months ago, Microsoft upset its user base when a Windows 10 Build took Paint out of the equation. They replaced it with an updated version of the software that supported 3D effects and other advanced features.

This year stands to shatter last year's record in terms of the number of successful hacks against businesses and government agencies. It seems that the hackers have a new favored tool:  The ransomware attack.

According to statistics gathered by Malwarebytes, attacks against government and business are up by a whopping 365 percent.