As we’re approaching the holiday season, so many are heavily relying on the internet for their shopping. With fewer than 50 online shopping days until Christmas, pressure to bargain hunt is skyrocketing, with retailers gearing up to make tempting offers on those dream items. However, it's not just the online retailers gearing up to take your money, the online criminals are, too.

Whether you're a company looking for an affordable alternative to Cisco Umbrella Enterprise's high cost, or looking for a solution with more features, better support & granular reporting, here's a breakdown of how ThreatSTOP and Cisco line up.

In the third quarter of 2018 alone, 4.4 million patient records were compromised across 117 disclosed health data breaches. This shows that health care continues to be targeted by criminals. The largest breach was UnityPoint, with 1.4 million records compromised.

Is your university protected? Iranian hackers attempted to attack U.K. universities with fake, government-certified cyber security courses. They accessed at least one college account.

A government agency that found itself infected with ransomware and having to pay the ransom to restore service. Another local agency has opted not to pay the ransom and restore operations. Ransomware targeted at organizations is still a threat and even with backups, you have a highly disruptive and public event to try to get back online that comes with serious costs and potentially lost revenue.

This week, the libssh project announced a serious bug in versions of their library released in the last few years.

An extremely sophisticated IoT botnet has recently been discovered and dubbed “Torii.” One of Torii malware’s many advanced capabilities is running on just about every type of smartphone, computer and tablet, with over 100 malware variants supporting over 15 different architectures.

Zero Trust Networking is that all network communication should be considered untrusted unless otherwise designated as safe (i.e. with authentication, a known source, or other criteria).

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