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Multi-Factor Authentication Options for Modern Businesses
As we have mentioned many times in this blog, passwords aren’t enough to keep our data safe. This is especially true in corporate, where countless malicious agents are constantly trying to steal data from companies and profit from it. Passwords are the first, most...
Phishing Emails and Calls: A Modern Business Challenge
Frauds based on social engineering continue to pose a problem for businesses and there are no signs of this changing any time soon. Phishing emails and calls (the latter is also known as vishing) are common yet effective tactics that skilled hackers use to obtain...
Watering Hole Attacks and How to Avoid Them
Watering hole attacks aren’t the type of threat that is constantly being faced by IT professionals. Instead, they are rare yet suppose a major threat in cybersecurity. For hackers, they demand plenty of work but the potential impact they have is remarkable. At My IT...
Apps Parents Must Watch Out On Kids’ Smartphones
Online predators are a tough reality that responsible parents must face. The Internet has opened a door to terrible scenarios where children can be directly contacted by sexual criminals or be relentlessly bullied. This is constantly happening and authorities are all...
Understanding and Fighting Back Scareware Attacks
Scareware has over a decade causing serious problems to Internet users. This is especially true among casual tech users who don’t have enough expertise to identify the artifice that this type of attacks poses. As a consequence, they end up falling as victims, losing...
What are Social Engineering Attacks?
Humans are prone to be deceived. In one way or another, we have been tricked by someone online with a hidden agenda, one trying to influence us by telling lies or by using a fake identity. The more these people knew about us, the greater their deception. In the era of...
Account Breach Types: Understanding Password Spray Attacks
In our series of account breach types, it’s time to talk about password spray attacks. While we have already dedicated time to brute-force attacks, it’s worthy to explain what password spray attacks are, how they operate, and how individuals and businesses can protect...
Account Breach Types: Understanding Brute-Force Attacks
When we talk about brute-force attacks in cybersecurity, we’re addressing a type of attack that has its foundations in the bare basics. When it comes to cyberattacks, staying true to the basics continues to work: brute-force attacks are proof of that. Indeed, this may...
Account Breach Types: Understanding Spear-Phishing Attacks
It can be hard to believe that we are still struggling with the exact same issues in cybersecurity that were serious problems decades ago. Human psychology hasn’t changed since the apparition of the Internet, so criminals continue to exploit the same flaws that are...
Cloud-based Email Security: What to Have in Mind?
Cloud services are everywhere now, presenting themselves as the ideal replacements for solutions we thought definitive. Many times, they do; many cloud-based products are cheaper, more effective, and overall more convenient in comparison with their traditional...
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