May 20, 2022
How many of us have seen passwords that are either someone’s date of birth or the number 123456 in order? These are passwords that can easily be guessed by cybercriminals. Unfortunately, there are several password bad practices that are commonplace....
April 21, 2022
A leaked password on an old account was used by hackers to get into the system which let the employees access the company’s servers through a VPN. The system didn’t require two-factor or multi-factor authentication. After the hackers gained access,...
April 18, 2022
The world is coping with lockdowns and working from home, but cyber terrorists have a field day. Here are a few numbers to show how deep the rot is: Number of encrypted threats- 10.4 million attacks Ransomware- 623.3 million attacks...
March 11, 2022
Every day more than one million people are joining the internet. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, people connected to the internet and interacting with the data will be 5 billion in 2020, and it is expected to increase to 7.5 billion...
February 28, 2022
IBM estimated that a cyber-attack costs a company $6.71 million per breach on average. The more and more a company handles digital information and user information, the access to those data has to be tightened from the core. There are...
January 31, 2022
A simple data breach can spell doom for businesses. It is imperative that businesses guard their data and that of their customers as if it were sacred. There is a lot of data that businesses collect, and being in control...
December 30, 2021
The surface web is everything that people like you and me access. It is readily accessible with the help of standard web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft’s Edge, and more. On the other hand, the deep web,...
December 22, 2021
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes as it is a low-risk but high-reward act and is a threat to businesses of all sizes. Hackers can easily gain access to a digital resource or application as usernames and passwords...
December 15, 2021
Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US, paid a ransom of $2.3 million in Bitcoins, to hackers. Guess what? It was the result of a single compromised password. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Volkswagen & Audi, Twitch, etc., are some...
November 16, 2021
What happens when an employee gets a phone call from the CEO of his company asking to wire $243K to a particular account? The person follows the instruction even though having a strange feeling about it. What happens next? The...