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Technology is a great resource for people in both their personal and professional lives. That being said, technology and the internet has also put people at risk of being targeted by many online dangers, as well as having their sensitive data exposed. Hackers, scammers, online predators, identity thieves, and catfishers …
Identity fraud is a very serious problem in the United States. According to the latest report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2016 about 10% of all people age 16 or older reported having been victims of some sort of identity theft in the past 12 months. The number …
Protect Your Devices With Password Managers When using the Internet on our devices, we are at risk of an attack. How to better protect our devices and information on it, find out in this article. Whether we want to admit it or not, our computers and phones are an inexhaustible …
For years, the security industry has discussed what responsibility ISPs have when it comes to cybersecurity. On the one side, there are those who argue that ISPs should protect their clients with upstream security controls and filters. On the other side, there are those who argue that customers should be …
Business owners tend to think that their businesses are safe from hacks and data breaches until a cyberattack hits them. Cyber-attacks have hit even companies like Yahoo, Marriott International, and eBay. Some of these hacks could have been avoided by auditing the systems and looking for vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, companies and …
Read moreHow to Run a Cybersecurity Audit to Protect Your Data
New data protection laws were introduced in Europe in 2018. GDPR was launched to protect consumers, providing strict regulations on how data could be collected, stored and used by companies. However, these new harsher laws may have been a shock to most of Europe, but to Germany, they were nothing …
As organizations increasingly rely upon their web pages for connecting to their customers, they need the ability to scale these webpages to growing customer bases. As a result, many organizations have deployed a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The purpose of a CDN is to reduce the load on the main …
Read moreCDN Cache Poisoning Vulnerability Allows DoS Attacks
The general company culture around the world has changed a lot today. Most employees like to use their personal devices at their workplace for work as they find them convenient and helpful towards productivity. In fact, Cisco found that BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) policy actually increases the level of …
Read more5 Ways you can Prevent your Computers from Getting Hacked
SQL injection (SQLi) is one of the most common online threats. In fact, OWASP — a non-profit dedicated to improving the security of software — lists all types of injections in the first place, i.e., SQL injection (SQLi) is the top application security risk. This brings us to the question: …
Read more3 Free Pentesting Tools for Finding SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Public Wi-Fi is pretty useful. You get to go to a café and get some work done, or maybe kill some time online while waiting at the airport. Public Wi-Fis are a godsend when you’re abroad, giving your all not to use roaming, or to end up with insane fees. …
Read moreMan in the Middle Attack and How to Stay Safe on Public Networks
Since the digital revolution began, there have been numerous cases of data breaches, identity theft, and loss of money. Cyber-attacks have become very pervasive and indiscriminate, as they can affect any individual, business, corporation, or government body. As such, we all need to understand the growing need for cybersecurity. Luckily, …
LastPass, one of the freemium top-ranked password managers known to privatize encrypted passwords, announced that they have fixed the recent bug that has the potential to extract the previous password you used through its service browser, according to reports from The Verve. This isn’t the first incident as has already happened. In …
Read moreLastPass Announces Bug Fix Over Password Exposure: Still in Favor By Businesses
By the end of 2018, cyber-attacks had increased by 59%, making the internet a little bit riskier for businesses. Even worse, cybercriminals have been shifting to using subtle attacks against businesses. While those that have a strong cyber-security program can spot these attacks from miles away, unprepared businesses are in …
Read moreUsing Risk Management to Keep Your Business Secure Online
Meeting people online seemed like a terrible idea not so long ago. At most, we would chat with them in chat rooms, without ever providing our phone number or actual location. At least not until we were fairly certain about whether we could trust them. Skip to 2019 and barely …
Read moreTake These Security Precautions When Meeting Someone Online
The importance of security and disaster recovery to the modern enterprise cannot be overstated. News like the LabCorp data breach that exposed data on 7.7 million consumers or a Raspberry Pi enabling a security breach at NASA provides empirical evidence of the importance of security on a regular basis. Similarly, …
Read moreThe Security & Disaster Recovery Benefits of SD-WAN
Data is one of the most valuable parts of information systems. Almost every organisation in this industry are using some sort of database-powered web applications. Structured Query Language or SQL is used to store, retrieve and manipulate data in the database. Today, I will talk about SQL injection and its …