Bring harmony to the information on your Smartphone DON'T CALL ME BY MY NAME At some point, you could have put a "name" on your phone to set up Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or both, or maybe the name was automatically generated during setup. That means that "Alex...
How to create a strong password Are you reusing the same password for all or most of your online accounts? Because strong passwords can be very difficult to memorize, you may tend to reuse the same one over and over again. Or maybe you use simple...
What is social engineering? Social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by deception or direct manipulation of the victim. It is one of the simplest and most complex security breach techniques at the same time. It is simple because it does not require the deployment...
Should we talk about Information Security? What’s it about? What do we need it for? How is information security different from two other concepts? What are digital security and cybersecurity? We are in the middle of a global pandemic, and due to physical distancing, the process of...
No business wants to suffer a data breach. But unfortunately, in today’s environment, it’s difficult to completely avoid them. Approximately 83% of organizations have experienced more than one data breach. (IBM Security 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report) These breaches hurt businesses in many ways....
Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to bypass security defenses. That’s why it’s essential to think like a hacker and adopt measures to stay ahead of them. This is what Defense in Depth (DiD) is all about. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Cybersecurity researchers uncovered an alarming mobile statistic. During the first few months of 2022, mobile malware attacks surged by 500%. This is alarming both in scale and because many people aren’t yet protecting smartphones.For years, mobile phones have become more powerful. They now do many...
LastPass, which announced a catastrophic data breach in December 2022 that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, stated that it occurred as a result of the same adversary mounting a second attack on its systems. One of the business's DevOps engineers' personal home computer...
You see, programming is a tool for problem solving. To solve an issue, you must first THINK about it. You consider how to handle a problem. What do we hope to gain from the resolution of this problem? Such thoughts occur to us. After you've...
There’s a reason that browsers like Edge have added breached password notifications. Data breaches are an unfortunate part of life. And can have costly consequences for individuals. Hackers can steal identities and compromise bank accounts, just to name a couple.Cybercriminals breach about 4,800 websites every...
