InTegriLogic Blog

Sextortion scams are alarming. Scammers claim to have hacked into your computer, capturing video footage of you engaging in private, adult activities, as well as the content on your screen. Their threat? Pay up, or they’ll send the footage to all of your contacts.

Recently, these scammers have become even more convincing by including victims' names and pictures of their homes. Let’s break down how these scams work and what you should do if one of these messages lands in your inbox.

Remote work has proven incredibly useful over the past few years, offering flexibility and efficiency for many businesses. However, with these benefits come significant cybersecurity challenges that must not be overlooked. If your business utilizes remote operations and you aren’t concerned about cybersecurity, it’s time to rethink your approach.

The thought of being scammed—whether in a professional or personal capacity—is a frightening one. In today’s world, we must remain vigilant to protect ourselves and our businesses from such threats. Fortunately, knowing what to look for can make all the difference.

Let’s take a few minutes to review some key warning signs that a message may be a scam.

While no one would suggest cutting back on cybersecurity, it's important to recognize that overinvesting and overreaching can lead to its own set of problems. This issue, known as cybersecurity sprawl, can have serious consequences for your business if not properly managed. Let’s explore how to avoid this sprawl and maintain effective security without unnecessary complexity.

When you think of a scammer, you probably picture someone trying to deceive others for personal gain. While that’s usually true, there's another type of individual worth mentioning: those who scam the scammers. Enter Kitboga, a content creator and self-described "scam baiter" who has made it his mission to turn the tables on these cybercriminals.

Network security is challenging. That’s why so many businesses struggle to implement the solutions they desperately need to stay safe and relevant. Today, we want to demystify some of these components and clearly outline what your highest priorities should be for your business’s network security.

Modern businesses—just like yours—cannot and should not operate without robust cybersecurity protections. This is a point we will emphasize at every opportunity. Let’s explore why security is so crucial and what steps you need to take to safeguard your business.

You can do everything in your power to secure your social media accounts and lock down your privacy settings. Still, at the end of the day, social media users expose themselves to a torrent of information and content every time they log on. As a civilization, we’ve never really had something like this before. These platforms curate content that the user wants to see to keep the user coming back and staying longer. It’s inherently designed to be enticing and addicting, which is dangerous for certain individuals.

Then, there are scams and an endless stream of grifts that pose a wide range of additional problems for users.

Let’s talk about ways you and those you care about can be safer on social media.

We’re still getting more information on this, but at the time of writing this, every American can assume that their social security number has been stolen. Let’s share what we know so far.

Unfortunately, cyberattacks will only continue in the weeks, months, and years to come, making it increasingly essential that businesses have access to cybersecurity expertise. Even more unfortunately, professionals with this level of expertise are becoming harder to find. Globally, we’re short almost four million people, and those we have are prone to make mistakes in their first few years. This comes from a report by Kaspersky, entitled “The Portrait of Modern Information Security Professional,” Let’s review what the cybersecurity developer found and what we can take away from these findings.

It can be challenging to deal with failure in any context, but in the case of your workplace projects and other efforts, it can be particularly harsh. This makes it all the more important to frame such failures as opportunities to grow in the future.

Let’s discuss six reasons an initiative may fail and the lessons that can be learned from these situations.

The world’s largest ticket retailer is in hot water after their parent company, Live Nation Entertainment filed an 8-K filing with the Security and Exchange commission admitting that they had been hacked to the tune of 1.3 terabytes of information. That amounts to 560 million customers’ personal information that has been stolen from the company’s servers. Today, we take a look at the hack and what it means for consumers.

It can be too easy to look at ransomware as a business problem. After all, it attacks businesses, locking down their data for ransom, often selling it or spreading it, and sometimes altering it for the business if returning it at all. It can be too easy to overlook another impacted target in all the mess.

What happens to the people whose data a business has collected and uses?

Last week, we discussed the many impacts your business suffering from ransomware has on “second-order harm,” downstream businesses, and average, ordinary people. This time, we wanted to return to “first-order harms”… those the impacted business has to deal with itself.

There are many parts of running a business where you cannot be too careful, one of which is the realm of cybersecurity. Many of the preventative measures you can implement aim to keep issues from making their way to your infrastructure in the first place, which makes sense from an operational standpoint. With an endpoint detection and response solution—or EDR—you’ll take an important step toward keeping most threats off your infrastructure.

It was very recently revealed that a global law enforcement effort took down a massive botnet that was in action for almost a decade. In light of this, we wanted to review what a botnet is and how it works, drawing from these events for some context.

We’ve spent the last few weeks discussing ransomware's impacts on different subsets. First, we discussed how a ransomware attack impacts the customers of the infected business, and then we touched on the infected business itself. To end, we want to touch on ransomware's impacts on society, specifically regarding economic health and geopolitical security, known as third-order harms.

Have you ever heard of the “man-in-the-middle” attack or MitM? It’s a situation where your data is stolen by an onlooker who situates themselves in the right place at the right time. Data interception is a very real thing that your business should be prepared to fight against. Let’s discuss some strategies you can use to counter these sneaky attacks.

Data is extremely important in the way that most businesses conduct themselves. This results in other people wanting that information, too. Today’s blog will look at how seemingly everyone online is out for your data. 

On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Apple deemed it necessary to send a rare alert to certain users via email, spread out across 92 nations. As Apple’s website states, these threat notifications “are designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.” Let’s review these attacks so we all understand this threat better.