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Published on: July 07th, 2015
On average, 85,000 malicious IPs are launched every day, The result is that in one year, users have a 30% chance of falling for a zero-day phishing attack.
Cybercrime is a fast-growing, dangerous threat to businesses. With businesses’ increased reliance on the Internet for daily operations, there is the potential to be exposed to cybercrime. More and more criminals are adopting this route to illegal activity due to its speed, anonymity, and convenience. cybercrime falls into two areas. The first comes in the form of attacks against computer hardware & software from threats such as viruses, malware, botnets, and network intrusion. (See below) The second is financial, and can include fraud, theft of financial information, and phishing. Our managed services agent protect your workstation. Please call us at 973.628.0041 or email us at [email protected] regarding any questions with our B.E.S.T program includes our RMM agent to protect your business.
Common threat workstation MAC/PC
Anti-Malware—Software that prevents, detects and eliminates malicious programs on computing devices.
Antivirus—Software that detects and eliminates computer viruses.
Backdoor Trojan—A virus that enables remote control of an infected device, allowing virtually any command to be enacted by the attacker. Backdoor Trojans are often used to create botnets for criminal purposes.
Botnets—A group of Internet-connected devices configured to forward transmissions (such as spam or viruses) to other devices, despite their owners being unaware of it.
Cybercrime—Also known at computer crime or netcrime, cybercrime is loosely defined as any criminal activity that involves a computer and a network, whether in the commissioning of the crime or the target.
DDoS—Distributed denial of service attack. An attempt to interrupt or suspend host services of an Internet-connected machine causing network resources, servers, or websites to be unavailable or unable to function.
Malware—An overarching term describing hostile and/or intrusive software including (but not limited to) viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other more, taking the form of executables, scripts, and active content.
Phishing—An attempt to acquire sensitive information like usernames, passwords, and credit card details for malicious purposes by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in a digital environment.
Rootkit—Trojans that conceal objects or activities in a device’s system, primarily to prevent other malicious programs from being detected and removed
Social Engineering—Non-technical malicious activity that exploits human interaction to subvert technical security policy, procedures, and programs, in order to gain access to secure devices and networks.
Trojan—Malicious, non-replicating programs that hide on a device as benign files and perform unauthorized actions on a device, such as deleting, blocking, modifying, or copying data, hindering performance, and more.
Zero-Day Vulnerability—a security gap in software that is unknown to its creators, which is hurriedly exploited before the software creator or vendor patches it.
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