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It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and not to mention the most chaotic.  Whether you’re trying to meet end of the year deadlines, shop for last-minute gifts, snag seasonal deals, or plan a festive party, it’s common to find yourself much more distracted than usual around the holidays. Unfortunately, this hectic holiday spirit is a breeding ground for cybercrime and other nefarious online activity. Hackers use this chaos to their advantage; in fact, a 2020 Experian survey found that one in four Americans have been a victim of identity theft or fraud during the holidays.  To ke ..read more

The VIPRE team has been working tirelessly to bring you consistently improved data protection, and today we have a big announcement: VIPRE SafeSend 5.0 is ready. This update to our SafeSend software is a big improvement in several ways, introducing exciting updates to help keep your information as secure as possible. What is VIPRE SafeSend? Email is a necessity in the modern era, but email interfaces leave users prone to mistakes. Sending a classified email to the wrong recipient can spell disaster, so it is crucial to protect against potential mishaps. VIPRE SafeSend is a software tool built ..read more

VIPRE Advanced Security is once again standing out as a leading security product with the ratings to prove it. In the recent AV-TEST Product Review and Certification Report for July-Aug 2021, VIPRE Advanced Security received the highest ratings in protection, performance, and usability — a perfect 6.0/6.0 in every single category.  AV-TEST evaluated 21 security products by using realistic tests to observe how each service stands up against real-world threats and scenarios, such as malware, worms, email threats, and Trojan horses. The test also examined daily usage of the product and how i ..read more

We’ve all heard about big companies getting hit by data breaches — Yahoo, Facebook, Marriott International, and more have notoriously fallen victim to large-scale attacks that rocked news headlines. But what about small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs)? While many SMB owners and employees might assume their smaller size makes them less valuable targets, they couldn’t be more wrong.  In fact, 43 percent of the most common digital attacks target SMBs. So what exactly makes smaller businesses so vulnerable to these threats? The shift to a more digital workflow as a result of the COVID-19 pa ..read more

Most antivirus and cybersecurity solutions tell you that they protect your attack vectors. If you’re familiar with the industry, you know exactly what that means. However, most people aren’t cybersecurity professionals. So, they may want to know, “What are attack vectors?” Attack Vectors Attack vectors are the way cybercriminals try to attack you. Attack may be a bit broad. This means that they attempt to steal your information, scam or defraud you, or in some rare instances cause you physical harm. These attack vectors don’t necessarily start with malware. Other paths and scenarios begin with ..read more

As a SMB end user, you are most vulnerable to the wiles of hackers and criminals when you are doing high-risk things without knowing just how risky they are. Below are activities you should stop doing now.   Sharing Information Over Public WiFi Using an unsecured network to share anything you care about is a bit like talking aloud in a public space, giving bystanders information. Use public WiFi sparingly. Never use it for banking, or for sending or receiving important information. This goes double for anything confidential. Some hackers specifically target unsecured wireless networks a ..read more

As the ransomware epidemic continues to spread, ask yourself how vulnerable your business is to cyber-extortion. Because ransomware incidents can severely impact business processes and leave organizations without the data they need to operate and deliver mission-critical services. A vulnerability assessment is a good first step to strengthening your defenses. Fending off ransomware attacks requires a multilayered strategy. If all you’ve done so far is to rely on antivirus scans and the good sense of your users to not click on suspicious emails, you’re doing the minimum. Yes, endpoint security ..read more

We are pleased to announce that we have made some exciting updates to our SafeSend service. SafeSend v4.6 now includes a web add-in solution which is available under the same license you have been using for your Windows Installer-based deployments. This update brings our award-winning prompt for misaddressed emails for Outlook users to Mac for the first time. The new web add-in has our basic send confirmation for email recipients and attachments, but also supports OWA (Outlook Web Access), Outlook for Windows with Microsoft 365 or Exchange Server, and Outlook for Mac with Microsoft 365. The w ..read more

VIPRE Security has released a security update related to last week’s attack affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. The Microsoft Security Response Center issued a detailed update March 5th with information and guidance for customers who may be affected. KrebsOnSecurity was first to report the hack. “This is the real deal,” Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said on Twitter, referring to the attacks on on-premises Exchange, which is also known as Outlook Web Access. “If your organization runs an OWA server exposed to the ..read more