

What can we learn from WannaCry?
On Friday, May 12th, 2017, an unknown group of hackers unleashed the now infamous WanaCrypt0r 2.0 against government agencies, companies, and individuals worldwide. When the dust settled over 200,000 systems had been infected, and many victims lost their files forever. WannaCry did not take weeks, or even days, to spread. The damage was done in mere hours. At the time of this writing, the authors of this ransomware had made just over $126,000 - a complete failure compared to


Ransomware - How to Prevent it
Ransomware is a type of malware that can be covertly installed on a computer without knowledge or intention of the user that restricts access to the infected computer system in some way, and demands that the user pay a ransom to the malware operators to remove the restriction. In 2016, the estimated cost of ransonware was over 1 billion dollars (1). It's a huge problem that could disrupt your business by rendering your computer systems unusable until a monetary ransom is paid