Posts and insights from world of cybersecurity
In light of recent events, you will likely get emails from employees and vendors asking to route their payments to new accounts. Hackers are mimicking these emails, in an effort to steal your employees’/ vendors’ money. Here are emails to look out for: Dear HR/ accounts payable, I used to bank with SVB. Please route my salary/ payment to this …
Did you know that education was the most targeted industry globally in 2022? The first half of 2022 saw an average of 2297 cyberattacks against educational organizations each week, an eye-watering 44% increase compared to the same period in 20211. It’s a worrying picture. But why are threat actors increasingly targeting the education sector? And why should cybersecurity for schools …
At Coro, we focus our energy entirely on small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). These businesses are the backbone of the American economy. Since SMBs are so important, we’ve made it our mission to support them with enterprise-grade cybersecurity at a price they can afford. In a recent article for ChannelFutures.com, Coro CEO and co-founder, Guy Moskowitz, writes about what it …
The world of cybersecurity is constantly changing. As professionals in this field, it’s our job to monitor trends and see how threats are developing. Over the past year, we’ve seen cyberattacks on educational institutions dramatically increase. Here is a growing list of schools, colleges, and universities that have suffered a cyberattack. May 2022 — Ransomware attack shuts down 157-year-old Lincoln …
Every month, Dror Liwer (Coro’s CMO and co-founder) writes a column for Forbes. Dror’s column is all about busting cybersecurity myths. This month, Dror is tackling a big issue: size. Have you ever thought that your company isn’t big enough to be a cyber target? Many think their company’s size keeps them off hackers’ radar. But not all hackers try …
Recently, our CMO and cofounder, Dror Liwer, was interviewed about AI in cybersecurity. If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you know that the most important thing to us is keeping small and midsize businesses (SMBs) safe. After we keep you safe, we want to give you such a fantastic experience are you even find yourself getting time …
The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) is a new government regulation with significant implications for managed service providers (MSPs). This act requires MSPs to report any cyber incidents they discover to the relevant authorities. This is a significant shift from the previous model, where MSPs were not required to disclose any information about cyber incidents …
If you’re not reading Dror’s recurring column in Forbes magazine, you are missing out. Dror Liwer is Coro’s CMO and co-founder. Every month, he publishes a column for Forbes that busts cybersecurity myths. This month, Dror is busting myths about compliance. Here’s a sample from this month’s column: “‘As a small or midsize business leader, there’s just no way for me …
Here at the Coro blog, we write a lot of cybersecurity stories about business executives and small companies. But today we want to talk about schools. As if schools didn’t have enough to worry about, they are now targets for cyberattacks. Most of us first started thinking about cyberattacks on schools after the tragedy at Lincoln College. Lincoln College …
Consequences are increasing for companies that don’t take cybersecurity seriously. You might be thinking, “haven’t there always been repercussions for companies that are lax with their cybersecurity?” There have indeed always been, but they fell mostly on the company, not on the individual people responsible.   That’s the difference with the new stance the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking. From …
