Category: Blog

shape
shape
shape
shape
shape
shape
shape
shape
Standard

Cyberattacks Are Spiking. Colleges Are Fighting Back.

The message, emailed to thousands of students and employees at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus last week, was alarming. Their personal information, including addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, academic progress reports, and financial documents, had been stolen, and their university was refusing to cooperate with extortion demands. As a result, the data was starting to be posted on the dark web, the shadowy back channel of the internet where cybercriminals lurk.

Standard

Extortion of therapy patients in Finland shakes culture of privacy

Katleena Kortesuo wasn’t completely unprepared when the extortionist known as “RANSOM_MAN” got in touch with her last October.

Standard

Are web browsers finally shifting their focus to security and privacy?

The web browser market has come a long way since the early days of Internet Explorer on Windows 95.The likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox has grown almost exponentially over the years. Today there are many flavors of web browsing one can experience. But when it comes to security, not every browser falls in an equal place.So, it is important to know what different web browsers are doing to tackle security and what you can do to upgrade your fortress.

Standard

What we should know about DDoS attacks?

By now most of aren’t strangers to cyber-attacks. Even if you have never fallen victim you would have seen plenty of news surfing the digital space on how company systems get compromised each day. Out of these attacks, Dos or DDoS is a regular term that keeps popping up. What do these terms mean? How does one protect themselves from these type of attacks? Here’s what you need to know.