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Five Ways to Empower Your Staff While Keeping Your Network Secure

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News of the Google Docs phishing scam is not the first time that shared cloud-based resources have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Many popular collaboration and IT management tools, such as Teamviewer and Slack, have had their time in the spotlight for compromises and breaches. The truth is these systems unwittingly provide […]… Read More

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How Hackers Attack Web Applications: Bots and Simple Flaws – Part 1

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Public web applications are an attractive target for hackers. Attacks on web applications open up wide opportunities, including access to internal resources of the company, sensitive information, disruption of the application, and circumvention of business logic. Virtually any attack can bring financial benefits to the attacker and losses, both financial and reputational, to the owner […]… Read More

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Today’s Cybersecurity Challenges Started in 1648

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Understandably, a few eyebrows raise up when I suggest today’s cybersecurity challenges started nearly 370 years ago, some 300 years before the invention of ENIAC (the world’s first digital computer). But I stand by this observation because of the unintended clash of two systems: the nation-state and the Internet. Many of the institutions, social constructs […]… Read More

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Women in Information Security: Kelly Shortridge

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Cybersecurity isn’t just for guys! It’s crucial to highlight the important work that women and non-males are doing in the information security field. Previously I spoke with Thais, a Brazillian woman in Germany who’s doing some intriguing malware research. This time, I’ve had the honor of speaking to Kelly Shortridge. She went from high finance […]… Read More

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With EMV Taking Off in the US, Fraudsters Are Shifting their Sights to Exploit the Digital Channel

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The EMV chip card standard has been rapidly gaining market share in the U.S. since its adoption began in earnest in the third quarter of 2015. While only 300,000 merchants accepted chip-enabled cards in September of that year, the number has since surged, according to a report from Visa, to over two million today. It’s […]… Read More

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How To Hide Browsing History – Complete Guide

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People today have many concerns regarding their browsing history and the visibility of their data to another person. There could be varying reasons for that. Many of them want to get rid of intrusive ads, and some just don’t want their searches to be seen by others using the same Internet connection. Also, the enforcement […]… Read More

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The Impact of Ransomware on Non-Profit Organisations

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Social engineering is the exploitation of human error to deceive end users. Ransomware is a type of malware (malicious software) often used in social engineering attacks. When attacked with ransomware, businesses are literally held for ransom while being denied the ability to carry out their usual business operations. The UK Government has recently released its […]… Read More

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Back to Basics: Combating Zero-Days with Common Sense

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The past few months have accelerated the struggle between cybercriminals and those that defend against them. It seems that once again we are back on the defensive—as fast as law enforcement can arrest the bad guys, more and increasingly vicious cyber-attacks are unleashed. It’s been ugly, heart-breaking, and in some cases demoralizing. Even though Microsoft […]… Read More

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Why You Should Not Pay WannaCry Ransomware

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If you’ve been infected with WannaCry, you’re probably not getting your files back if you pay. About three days ago, a ransomware campaign named “Wannacry” began. If you looked only at what mainstream media is telling you, this was malware written by genius programmers who know what they are doing and is one of the […]… Read More

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Women in Information Security: Thaís

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As a woman who works in cybersecurity, I know that there are many amazing women in my field. Last time, I had the pleasure of speaking with Cheryl Biswas, who works as a corporate cybersecurity consultant. This time, I spoke to Thaís. She’s been educated on two different continents in both physics and computer science! […]… Read More

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