cybersecurity

Hi Folks! Till now, you have read my blogs over cybersecurity for your business or your systems. Today, I am going to talk about your home security. We can’t neglect this part of security as “Charity (security) begins from home”. That’s a good line though…. Okay, let us find out some unique ways to protect your home from burglars. Burglarproof Windows: Windows are the hotspots for burglars to enter a house. Thus, it becomes necessary to make your windows secure enough against thieves. For this, you can do a couple of things such as: Install window sensors Strengthen window with…

Continue Reading

In this technological era, account hijacking has become a pain in the neck. Instagram is continuously facing these threats and that’s why it decided to take strong action against it. Instagram started with small and simple methods. They founded the way to get locked out of hacked Instagram accounts with a 6-digit code sent on email or phone number that was originally used to open the account. In addition to this, the problem of identity theft like a name is also gaining ground. What hackers actually do with this identity? Cybercriminals upon hacking Instagram account; change the settings including password…

Continue Reading

You all might be aware of the RSA conference that held this year in March in San Francisco. This brought many cybersecurity tools in limelight. The features of these tools are very interesting that I cannot resist myself in discussing those with all of you through this article. Let’s have a look at some of them: Areca Bay Force Field — It is a 3 step process i.e. discover, monitor, and secure all APIs. This is a helpful tool that provides coverage to all your applications like legacy, third party, virtualized, and server-less. It enables the security team to deploy…

Continue Reading

Data breaches have made a remarkable impact on some well-renowned companies. In the year gone by, many companies were imposed by heavy penalties. Let’s have a look at them one by one. UBER: In 2016, 57 million accounts of users had been hacked. To keep this breach under wraps, uber paid a heavy sum to the perpetrator. Due to this, the company was asked to pay $148 million dollar as fine. This proved to be the biggest data breach penalty so far. YAHOO: In 2013, Yahoo suffered from a massive breach of about 3 billion accounts which it didn’t unveil…

Continue Reading

There are many security tools in the market. But, choosing one of them is very critical to decide. It is not necessary that each and every tool is good and effective. There might be some that are not worth using them. Hence, this leaves some individuals with the option of no security tool at all for their systems. Whether it is good to have none of the security tools than to have an ineffective tool? Well, every person has different views regarding it. It is a well-known fact that it is better to have something than to have nothing, therefore,…

Continue Reading

A sandbox is a testing atmosphere that allows users to run programs without affecting the application, system or platform on which they run. Software developers use sandboxes to check new programming code. Cybersecurity professionals use sandboxes to check potentially malicious software. Without sandboxing, an application or alternative system method may have unlimited access to all the user information and system resources on a network. Sandboxes are also accustomed safely execute malicious code to avoid harming the device on which the code is running, the network or alternative connected devices. Employing a sandbox to notice malware offers an extra layer of…

Continue Reading

CISSP – A Certified Information Systems Security Professional is a certification in data security driven by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. The CISSP offers security professional’s technical skills and hands-on experience in implementing and managing a security program. Organizations often look for candidates who have cleared the CISSP exam because they hold sufficient knowledge about cybersecurity and have hands-on experience and formal CISSP training. How to get a CISSP certification: First and foremost, candidates must attain a minimum of five years of full-time, hands-on experience in at least two of the eight cybersecurity knowledge domains. The (ISC)²…

Continue Reading

It is a fact that we never read privacy policies. And of course, that’s because they don’t seem to be actually written for you, or any of the other billions of individuals who click to comply with their inscrutable legalese. Instead, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the advantage of their authors, not readers—the lawyers who wrote those get-out clauses to shield their Silicon Valley employers. But one cluster of academics has projected the way to read the privacy policies: artificial intelligence that is fluent in the fine print. Today, researchers at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology…

Continue Reading

In the present scenario, every business collects increasing amounts of information, whether it comes in the form of consumer info, plans for brand new merchandise in development, or surveillance video collected from connected cameras. All this information is worthy, and the rise of data collection among businesses of all sizes implies that major multinational firms are not any longer the first focus of today’s new breed of cybercriminals. Everyone seems to be a potential target currently, creating cybersecurity a topmost priority for businesses both large and small, whether non-public or public. The unfortunate truth is that it is not possible…

Continue Reading

Computer Worms!!! Just like earthworms, they keep on increasing by itself… What these are in actual? A computer worm is a threat that spreads numerous copies of itself into several computers without the need for any external software or human interaction. Processing of computer worms— These worms may arrive along with spam emails or instant messages and can also be transmitted through software vulnerabilities. When these spam emails are opened, it may take us to malicious link or automatically download the worm upon clicking which gets unnoticed and corrupt the system. Worms can modify, delete files, add another malicious software,…

Continue Reading