Car Hacking: Fact or Fiction?

The era of connected cars and autonomous vehicles is definitely here. Carmakers are investing heavily in their own autonomous vehicles. The technologies are already on the market too, with Tesla leading the way and other car companies introducing their own versions soon after. Cars are getting smarter, but the smart features of modern cars introduce … Read more →

The 21 Biggest Data Breaches Of The 21st Century [Infographic]

Impoverished software and weak passwords can trigger cyberattacks. Cybercrime is a real threat for big corporations and small businesses as well. With the increasing popularity of mobile devices,  it’s not just desktops and laptops that are affected. By working with professionals, we can conduct regular risk assessments to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed as they arise. It’s also … Read more →

Is Your Company Educated on Email Best Practices?

Business email compromise is a form of cyberattack in which malicious parties utilize email as a tool to appeal to internet users’ emotions, and get unsuspecting web surfers to read an email, click on a link, and even enter personal or corporate information on a (unbeknownst to them) malicious website. This type of hacking is … Read more →

Top 10 Tips for WordPress Website Security

WordPress, which is a very commonly used CMS, powers a third of the world’s websites. An advantage of using WordPress is that even the premium features are available at reasonable prices. Now, let’s look at the other side of the picture. A recent survey report had stated that in today’s world, where cyber attacks are … Read more →

Can You Spot a Phishing Scam?

Are you sure that email you received from Apple is actually from Apple? Fraudulent emails are one of the biggest security threats impacting businesses and individuals. Known as phishing, these emails lure users into clicking a malicious link or downloading malware-infected file by mimicking the look of emails sent from reputable companies. This is done … Read more →

Don’t Get Hooked by Social Phishing, Here is How

Prevention is better than consequences. Before we go on to discuss about the ways to survive phishing, let us first get an idea about what it is. What is phishing? Not to confuse with fishing (although the idea is same), phishing is a fraudulent attempt to extract sensitive information from online visitors by putting on … Read more →

5 Keys to Memorable Passwords that are Also Secure

Nearly every website you log into, whether it is social media or a banking site, or even the places you most frequently shop online requires a password. Sometimes, those passwords can be simple, but often they are complex and have specific requirements about their length and the kind of characters that must be included. The … Read more →

3 Commons Issues Affecting WordPress Security

WordPress is a popular open source platform for building websites. To date, over 17 million websites have been built on this platform, mainly because of its user-friendly content management system. While wordpress hosted sites offer high quality protection, there are certain actions that can still pose a security threat. In order to ensure that your … Read more →

Why Good Cybersecurity Implies Good Leadership

In the not-so-distant past, cybersecurity was typically the forgotten stepchild of an organization’s Information Technology (IT) department. After a spate of high-profile cyberattacks and data breaches that have foisted millions of dollars in costs and damages on the targeted companies, the responsibility for cybersecurity has moved straight up to the executive suite. A Board of … Read more →

Edge Computing for Enhanced IoT Device Network Efficiency

Managing IoT devices can be very tough. Chiefly because they sometimes depend heavily on quick data processing. For this to happen, the data centers or servers responsible for processing the IoT device data has to be located in close proximity to the IoT device. This is not possible always. Therefore to avoid this problem and … Read more →