October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but it also well known, among the vernacular of the younger generation, as Spooky Season. Most people are more concerned with ghosts, ghouls, and goblins than they are with the dangers lurking in the dark corners of the Internet.

If you've watched any sci-fi movie, you probably understand the perceived dangers of the digital world. Primarily the unrealistic dangers of artificial intelligence. Now, I'm not saying that AI won't be a threat in the future but it's important to note that right now the people using the Internet pose a much bigger threat than an incoming Robo-Apocalypse.

Have you ever wondered where all those weird holidays come from? Like, who got to decide that April 23rd was National Talk Like Shakespeare Day? Or that Squirrel Appreciation Day would fall on January 21st? Or that the last Friday of every April would be National Hairball Awareness Day? An entire day to make sure that your feline friends aren’t spewing wet clumps of hair on to the floor seems like a waste of time, but do you know what isn’t? An entire month dedicated to cybersecurity.

To complete our updates to the Kaseya Ransomware incident.

Kloud9 has fully started its Kaseya VSA server backup after extensive testing of the patches provided by Kaseya on July 16th.

Although Kloud9's clients were generally not affected by this incident, it did slightly reduce our service deliverability and delayed our billing cycles.

Even though most businesses are closed due to COVID-19, hackers AREN’T taking time off!

In fact, quite the opposite. Most hackers know that many business owners will try to reduce IT security in attempt to “reduce costs” leaving them open and vulnerable to an attack.

This post was originally published on wkyc 3 on November 2, 2018 by Brandon Simmons.

CLEVELAND – Investigators revealed that a local Scoutmaster, Thomas Close, used the dark web to trade pictures, including child pornography, and passwords on Russian websites.