SynerTech Cloud, today announced it has completed the deployment of its enhanced CoreCall Control platform. The platform supports the company's UCaaS, CCaaS and channel engagement capabilities, including 800+ Partners serving over 2,600 businesses globally with more than 32,000 seats on the platform. 

These new enhancements go above and beyond just offering a modernized cloud infrastructure and active-act...

A ransomware infection from last year cost the Pennsylvania Senate over $700,000. According to a recent report, the ransomware attack encrypted their entire IT system. The original ransom demand was about 28 bitcoin, equal to $30,000.

State officials followed best practices and declined to pay the ransom. Even if you give in to the ransom demand, there is no guarantee you will get your data back and...

Because of the cryptocurrency market's significant growth in the past couple of years, everyone wants a piece of that pie. Ransomware is still the most popular way for cybercriminals to generate that cryptocurrency income, but these days it seems that everything from personal computers to mobile devices and servers are all being targeted as possible hosts for secretly mining cryptocurrency. This week the...

The SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research Team have come across a fake ransomware Trojan that functions as a bootlocker. It is named Uselessdisk because of the debugging symbols and project name strings that the developer has left in the executable file. Its aim is simple: render the system unbootable and pretend that files on the system have been encrypted. Ask for $300 USD in bitcoin for file recovery...

Hackers have obtained credentials for more than 68 Million accounts for online cloud storage platform Dropbox from a known data breach.

Dropbox has confirmed the breach and already notified its customers of a potential forced password resets, though the initial announcement failed to specify the exact number of affected users. 

However, in a selection of files obtained through sources in the database trad...

The City of Atlanta is still struggling to bounce back a week after falling victim to a ransomware attack.

According to reports, Atlanta residents are unable to pay water bills or parking tickets, and employees have to fill out all paperwork by hand. The city says there is no evidence to believe any customer or employee data is compromised, but they are recommending residents contact credit agencies and...

With the amount of ransomware cases seeming to increase every day, wouldn’t it be nice to have amazing tips to protect yourself? Well, you’re in luck.

So, we've told you how ransomware is spread and informed you about some common types, now we’re going to tell you how you can protect against it.

Cyber criminals armed with ransomware are a formidable adversary. While SMBs aren’t specifically targeted in ran...

The SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research Team have come across a fake ransomware Trojan that functions as a bootlocker. It is named Uselessdisk because of the debugging symbols and project name strings that the developer has left in the executable file. Its aim is simple: render the system unbootable and pretend that files on the system have been encrypted. Ask for $300 USD in bitcoin for file recovery...

Why You Need An Updated And Thorough Business Continuity Plan

Business Continuity Plans (BCP) are defined as documents that try to ensure the safety of personnel and assets in case of a disaster.

BCPs are very helpful for a number of reasons:

Extremely useful for employees to know where to go and what procedures to run in case of a disaster

Provides a documented process for recovery of X computers to Y place...