This past weekend hit the world like a pile of bricks as nearly 100 countries were hit with the ransomware, WanaCry (or WannaCry, as many are prone to calling it). This malicious ransomware, like a worm, spreads on its own. Targets are met with a ransom screen that demands $300 in bitcoin as a ransom […]
Small businesses are the backbone of America and account for 99.7% of all businesses. In the US, small businesses are defined as businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Because of their size, small businesses often fall into a dangerous mentality of believing they are too small to be the target of cyber attacks and assume […]
Easter eggs are nothing new in technology, especially in software. They started out in entertainment in the 1970s and have remained part of pop culture today. Easter eggs in the digital sense, particularly those found in software and applications, aren’t as popular as they once were, but developers are still in the habit of looking […]
In recent years, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) has become a standard in the industry. Already used by millions of websites to protect their information, SSL is a necessary and relatively accessible security feature to apply onto your site. We’ve talked a lot about what SSL is, and how reliable free SSL can be – and […]
Forevermore, information security will be of the utmost concern to any enterprise. As we all know, data breaches can wreak havoc on the livelihood of individuals and businesses alike. Unfortunately, many of these break-ins stem from mundane lapses in what should have been basic security practices, whether on the part of junior employees or even […]
Answering Frequently Asked Questions About Free SSL services We’ve discussed what SSL is in a previous post already, and we all know the benefits by now including improved page loading time, boosted search rankings, and enabled trust among visitors. Major hosting providers are now partnering with free SSL services like Let’s Encrypt to make the […]
Web crawlers scan your website as soon as it goes live, and while some web crawlers are good for SEO purposes, others are not so well-intended. In the past year, cyber attacks made major headlines, including the infamous Yahoo breach. But the reality is that hacking is taking place every day and hackers aren’t always […]
While the word “cloud” has been growing in popularity and the “IT-trend” in virtual circles everywhere, the past couple of weeks have been a tough one for the Cloud. The term “Cloudbleed” has been tossed around the IT and Cloud communities as a critical security flaw in Cloudflare’s CDN was recently discovered. It is ironic […]
There used to be a time when hacking was seen as a difficult skill that only evil coders in dark, solitary rooms could pull off. However, we’re no longer in that cyber era. Nowadays anyone can be a hacker, and most hackers can easily access and attack vulnerable websites. In fact, these days hackers can […]
While phishing and pharming did not gain momentum until the mid-2000’s, they have been a force to be reckoned with since they first made waves on the Internet. According to a case study by Wombat Security, two-thirds of the organizations they studied have experienced targeted and personalized phishing attacks. But phishing scams do not discriminate; […]
