By Gary Salman From the Spring/Summer 2020 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association During the last several months, there has been a significant paradigm shift in the cybersecurity world. Threat actors from Russia, in particular, have enhanced their capabilities to target individual businesses and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) or IT companies. In December 2019, hacking groups known as Sodinokibi (aka …
Dental Practice Cybersecurity: Beware of Ransomware and the Decay It Causes
By Herb Miner From the Fall 2017 Journal of the Colorado Dental Association Dental cavities are caused by bacteria that produces acid and erodes tooth enamel and dentin. In much the same way, technological bacteria like ransomware can infiltrate your network, destroy your perimeter safeguards and harm your sensitive business and patient information. Ransomware is a growing threat to dental …
Don’t Fall Victim to the Ransomware Virus
One of the nastiest types of virus in the world these days is called “ransomware” – a virus that silently infects one computer on the network and, quietly in the background, starts encrypting your user files so you can’t access them. After a certain period of time, the ransomware virus will display a message telling you your files are encrypted …