What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is an additional tool in your security tool belt consisting of various methods and programs to protect sensitive data from outsiders, including loss and exposure. The DLP (Data Loss Prevention) aims to protect data integrity, availability, and confidentiality inside the…
Understanding Black Friday and Cyber Monday Scams is the first step to staying safe. Vigilance and awareness of potential threats when shopping online during these peak seasons is crucial. Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams refer to fraudulent schemes during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday season when cyber thieves swindle their unsuspicious customers…
NIST has made its most recent major step in securing digital communication from the new threats of quantum computing. It wrapped up the promotion of 14 cryptographic algorithms to the second round of its additional post-quantum digital signing competition. This is the agency’s additional step towards the persistent effort to…
Starting November 10, 2023, Azure announced that all connections to its services must use TLS 1.2 or newer versions for better security. The older versions, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, are being phased out because newer versions offer better security features. What is TLS? Transport Layer Security is a protocol…
Cyber crimes have no stop signs! Weekly, cyber attacks per organization increased by 30% averaging 1,636. This is another addition to the long list of cybersecurity attacks! HUMAN Security, Inc., a global cybersecurity company, uncovered a huge fraudulent operation called “Phish ‘n’ Ships.” This scam has stolen millions of dollars…
On November 5, 2024, Google Cloud announced that it will require all users to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) by 2025. Was MFA not Implemented Previously? No, it was implemented, but only 70% of the users were using it, and the rest were signing in with just a password, which is…
In its step further toward privacy and security, Apple recently announced an important update regarding the receipt signing intermediate certificate of the App Store, which will be able to switch over to the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm. This changes the requirements for app validation as well as in-app purchases, and so…
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 cybersecurity researchers, the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform Sniper Dz has recently achieved a worrisome milestone for many. Over the year, Sniper Dz has created over 140,000 phishing sites, targeting popular platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, and PayPal users. How does Sniper Dz launch…
In a recent cybersecurity alert, researchers have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the popular Jupiter X Core WordPress plugin, which is currently installed on over 90,000 websites globally. This plugin has been identified as having security flaws that could potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and take control of affected…
What is E2EE? The most advanced barrier against leakage is end-to-end encryption, which is a security protocol used in communication systems to guarantee the confidentiality and authenticity of the transmitted data. Just as conventional encryption methods carry out data encryption and decryption in different places, E2EE encrypts messages on the…
In a recent industry shift, Apple finally dropped draft proposal details for shortening the maximum public SSL/TLS certificates to 45 days by 2027. The announcement, made on October 9, 2024, as part of the CA/Browser Forum’s Face-to-Face meeting, received a positive boost from Sectigo, a significant player in the digital…
The modern world, where users value the speed of site loading and the ability to access content constantly, is a domain of improved hosting services that traditional hosting suppliers cannot boast of. Poof! Today, CDN can hardly be discussed out of context of how it defined the Internet era in…
In the digital era, where data transmissions are performed over networks, most of the information being processed is sensitive; thus, safeguarding data security and privacy is of utmost significance. One of the necessary household cybersecurity algorithms is RSA asymmetric encryption. Named for its architects Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, RSA encryption…
When Bitcoin surged past the$45,000 threshold for the first time on Jan. 2, 2024, Cryptocurrency became one of the hot topics that got everyone talking. But whoever thought hackers would also use this for malicious activities? Here comes cryptojacking, a sophisticated form of cybercrime in which hackers extract money from…
What is Multi-Cloud Security? Multi-cloud security is a collective term that is formed by the security measures, strategies, and technologies that are used to safeguard the data, applications, and infrastructure across various cloud computing platforms. In multi-cloud setups, companies will spend on services and resources from different cloud service providers…
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