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Vulnerability Assessment for Business: Why and How?
It’s hard to believe that after all these years, there are many businesses that continue to neglect proper vulnerability assessments on their data infrastructures. According to IBM's 2018 Cost of a Data Breach study, the average total cost of a data breach is now...
Passwords Stored in Plain Text: Latest Facebook Privacy Scandal
As usual, the online community was struck by a new scandal related to Facebook. Past Thursday was reported by KrebsOnSecurity that the massive social media platform spent many years storing users’ password in plain text, something that for many different reasons is...
Mobile Cybersecurity Investments Expected to Increase in 2019
Mobile cybersecurity continues to create awareness among business users who are worried about the access that third parties may gain to their systems. For too many years, this aspect of cybersecurity has been surprisingly neglected, even when facing an unprecedented...
Major Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Individuals’ Information
Academic institutions inevitably build large databases as the result of being involved with thousands or even millions of individuals, from former and current students to professors and researchers. These databases, as expected, include information of interest for...
How Social Warfare’s WordPress Plugin Became a Serious Liability
Over 40,000 websites online are using Social Warfare, a highly popular WordPress plugin that allows visitors to share content directly on their social media profiles. For a few years now, this plugin has been one of the go-to options for webmasters that want to pack...
Despite Training, Phishing Continues to Be a Major Problem for Organizations in 2019
Phishing consists in one of the most essential ways to steal information online and therefore, a top priority for cybersecurity training in organizations. However, training provided to professionals who have access to the company’s devices and data has proven to be...
Common Mistakes in Corporate Application Security in 2019
Many companies, including the big ones, forget that corporate application security, like cyber security of other natures, is an ongoing duty, not a one-time investment that works by itself and doesn’t require any degree of maintenance, update, or supervision. Legacy...
ASUS Software Update Server Used to Infect Users with Malware
It was recently discovered and reported by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab that ASUS’ software update service was hacked by a still-unknown hacking group that exploited this channel to infect over 1 million computers from the manufacturer with malware....
2 Lessons from a Panorama of Cyber-Threats During 2018
Last year, we saw how cybercriminals continued to do their jobs in a creative, hardworking fashion. 2018, like many years of the current, soon-to-end decade, was abundant in headlines telling us how dangerous was to browse and use our personal information online....
Password Strength: Why You Must Stop Neglecting It
Password Strength: Why You Must Stop Neglecting It We tend to ignore the strength of our digital passwords more than we would like to admit. In order to simplify our lives, you choose to use poorly-thought passwords that are easy to remember. With so many accounts for...
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