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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2017: Block malware from infecting your computer
Oct. 25, 2017—By definition, malware is malicious software that infects computers, resulting in activity against the interests and/or intentions of the computer’s regular user/owner. The effects of malware could be as benign as slower performance and as malignant as loss of data, attacks on other machines, or worse. Trying to recover from data loss or attacks on...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2016: The 411 on ransomware
Oct. 12, 2016—Ransomware is a type of malware that is frequently delivered through phishing emails to an end user. Today, most variants of ransomware are designed to encrypt files on the infected system and network. This type of ransomware is called crypto-ransomware. Other variants have been known to erase files. Once blocking access to the system is...