How to recognize, report, and prevent phishing attacks

To protect your business from phishing attacks, it is imperative that everyone in your organization be able to recognize the signs of a phishing email and know how to report suspicious activity.
How to Cyber-Protect Your Business

At Waterloo Cyber, we are focused on creating simple habits that do not cost much money and increase your organization’s cybersecurity. Cybersecurity has a chance to excel when it is embraced by business leaders, who lead by example. They lead with good habits, including planned communication of cybersecurity messages that will be shared throughout their organization.
Can your Smartphone be used to guess your mood?

User protection for accelerometer data is lacking, largely due to the lack of understanding of the issue. In current mobile operating systems, third-party applications can access accelerometer data without requiring any permission or conscious participation from the user.
Improving Cybersecurity at Not-For-Profit Organizations

Not-for-Profit (NFP) organizations face a unique set of cybersecurity challenges. NFPs must account for a large and diverse group of stakeholders including donors, volunteers, clients, and staff, all of whom must be educated on cybersecurity best practices to avoid becoming the channel through which cyber-criminals attack the entire organization.
Cybersecurity for Your Website

With WordPress websites becoming more sophisticated, and the responsibility for managing the websites moving from webmasters to business owners, major cybersecurity issues have emerged.
Understanding the Ransomware Threat Landscape

The proliferation of ransomware tools, the increased use and value of cryptocurrency, economic instability, and the overall increase in data (and value of data) are making ransomware attacks easier to commit and more profitable by the day.
An Introduction to Cyber-Risk Management

As cyber risks escalate, small business leaders need to find workable processes for dealing with their cybersecurity risks.
Strange, behind-the-scenes browser extension activity

Do you know what browser extensions exist in your browser and what they are doing? If you do not know, then you may want to ask your IT service provider.
Big Business Cybersecurity for Small Businesses … without the Big Cost

Many leaders of smaller businesses have spent a few hours checking their business rewards and cybersecurity risks and found themselves motivated to take their businesses to the next level.
Problems are inevitable, goals are not. Plan accordingly.

As we do our work, we will always encounter problems. As we do our work, we will always perform many tasks. As we do our work, we will not always achieve goals. Throughout our business careers, problems will outnumber achieved goals. We need to keep that fact in perspective. If we expend too much energy anticipating [worrying about, […]