When you think of ransomware attacks and data breaches you don’t think of how fast your files can be gone! Knowing the facts can help you think about how to be smarter if you can’t be faster. In the article attached you’ll see how fast hackers can steal you data. How much of your valuable data can be in 100,000 files? Now ask yourself the same question but increase that …
This week the Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry was hacked. Which means, even though they have the money and access to technology, the cybercriminals are still winning the war. This leads to a big question of how are governments fighting this war, and are they really using all the possible assets available to them? With the political situation globally getting more tense, what will happen if the well funded hackers attack …
It’s a sad thing to think that some people might not get gifts for the holidays or be able to have the typical family celebrations!! Not because they don’t have jobs, not because they haven’t earned their pay, but because hackers hit the company that provides the software to processes the payroll has been hit with Ransomware!! These hackers make Scrooge look like a nice guy! In the article they …
I recently read a great article about ransomware, and while it was extremely geared toward techies, I thought it would be great to simplify it for time’s sake. The first thing to understand before I go into detail is that hackers don’t wake up to find you and hit you with ransomware. It is a skilled and timed precise attack. These aren’t just kids sitting in the basement on their …
Last Thursday October 28th hackers hit the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) with a Ransomware attack. While the TTC claimed they were not affected terribly, the users of the system suffered some discomfort. But the people who really suffered were those who use the TTC Wheel-Trans service. This service is for disabled people, it helps them get to appointments, do their shopping, etc. Without this service many people who desperately rely …
We have all heard about recalls, when there is a food recall for example, I know in my house I likely won’t see that brand in my fridge or pantry for years to come. Their reputation has been scared and earning back trust is hard! Why is that, it’s because we as a society place a high value on reputation based on quality, security and performance! And if a product …
Well it’s bitter sweet Labour Day is here, the end of summer, the beginning of school, and the time Cybercriminals LOVE!!! (see article below). While most of us will be enjoying a long weekend with family and friends, some people will be hard at work, HACKERS! They love these long weekends when most IT teams are off they make their attack. While they’ve been mining information about companies on the …
When I bought my home I asked my locksmith for the “best lock available”, his answer, “the better the lock the better the lockpick”! See the article below. It seems that is true in the world of Cybercrime. The more we try to combat hackers the smarter they get. That’s not to say leave yourself open, it means armour up and protect yourself and prepare for possible recovery. We put …
We all leave our home and instinctively lock the front door behind us, but did I leave the back door open??? Sounds simple and silly but this is how hackers get in most of the time. The front door may be locked up tight but the back door is wide opened!! What is a back door for a hacker, it could be your supplier who has weak security, could be …
PUBLIC CLOUD A public cloud is based on shared virtualized resources. It’s owned and operated by a service provider. It works with internet connectivity only, so it’s a multiple customers’ support. The first advantage of the public cloud is the speed with which you can deploy IT resources, you can stagger compute power up and down as your business needs in a few minutes. The second, is the ability to …
Our CEO Sylvain Boyer is now contributor of the technology section of the French newspaper l’Express Toronto. Come to discover our new press article about cloud computing 3.0 here !
We all know that digital transformation changes our society and the business world fundamentally. Time today is accelerating and ways to interact with consumers are multiplying. Digitalism is the source of productivity, optimization and new revenue streams, but it also induces new risks. The digital transformation has mutated uses and consequently it redefines the technology market itself. The technology race has never been faster like what we experience today. Obsolescence …
