cybersecurity

I am sure you all are well known about fake antivirus software. It is a common term these days that spread persistent threats on the system. It is a software which tends to act as the original software, show frequent pop-ups on the window regarding the infectious system. It can have negative effects over your system if you fall prey to this software. These pop-up messages appear as ‘your system is at risk’ or ‘antivirus scanning’. By looking at these messages, the user gets scared off and do whatever is needed to keep system risk free such as updating, installing,…

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To build up a cross-segment cybersecurity system, US President has chosen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Department of Commerce (DOC). On April 3rd, 2013, the Special Assistant to the President for Cyber Security opened a board dialog in Washington, D.C. identified with Presidential Executive Order 13636. The motivation behind the board was to portray the procedure to be followed in building up a national standard. Congress had recently voted against a bill that contained the pith of what the Executive Order requires. Dependable government experts disclosed their general way…

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How seriously you take cybersecurity at your business? Is it something that you own or just a handover thing? Are you eager to make the effective use of this to protect and grow your business? To ensure high-end security, business continuously invests in security services. A small business can win a number of consumers by adopting this cybersecurity technique. With an active approach towards cybersecurity, a chain is formed as: SECURITY BUILD TRUST- When you start thinking cybersecurity as more than just protection, you’ll be surprised to see how investment brings a return. It is lucid that consumers’ priorities are…

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Do you have any idea about large breaches that affect well-established firms? These massive breaches come from an external source rather than an internal one. There are number of breaches that are coming in bulk and harming bigger firms, therefore they need to give priority on handling those attacks. Some biggest breaches that happened in recent years. Marriott:- Marriott’s Starwood hotel branch found a threat in 2018, which revealed the records of about 387 million guests with their names, gender, addresses, birthdates, and passport numbers. They did not know about this incident and it is estimated that this breach might…

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There are numerous types of social engineering attacks. One of my friends had been the victim of one of these attacks. She bore a great loss due to this threatening incident. As she came out of the loss, she found some ways by which one can avoid to become the victim of these crimes. 2FA/Multifactor authentication- One of the best ways to prevent hacking is the use of multifactor authentication where a hacker has to unlock numerous steps which become difficult and require long duration. Thereby, criminals may get frustrated and might not think of hacking. It is a good…

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In the previous, I have discussed social engineering and some of its attacks (Baiting, Phishing, Spear Phishing and Email hacking and Contact spamming). Today, I am going to discuss its remaining types. Scareware: – It is also known as deception software, rogue scanner software, or fraudware. In this attack, false reminders or threats are sent to victims system which upon clicking or installing impose serious threats and their systems get infected with malware. Example- while using the web, sometimes a popup is displayed regarding virus with a suggestion like to install software or you go to an infectious website. Pretexting:…

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Often people get confused with the meaning of social engineering attack. Even I was not clear about it in the initial phases. Now, after gaining thorough knowledge, I find myself sufficient enough to aware you all about this attack. In an effective and simple language, this is a technique used by cyber attackers to target unsuspecting users; so that they may send their private data to them and infect their own computers with various threats by opening infected sites. Types of social engineering: Baiting – It increases the greed of a person by making false promises in order to steal…

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There are plenty of free softwares available online. Why not are all individuals opting those to secure their systems? How useful they are? In this technology phase, there are 2 modes to make your system threat free which are as follows: By installing free security software. By installing subscription-based software that needs to be renewed after a particular time period. Just imagine if something is available for free, then how the company would take benefit? Yes, this sounds strange. Actually what they do is; they gather the data of the user and then sell it to the bidder who will…

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Cookies are small text files which get stored on the device by the websites that one visited. These are mainly used for storing website information, browsing details in any web browser and for authentication. These are also known as browser cookies, web cookies, and HTTP cookies. Some websites make cookies compulsory to enable, while some do not. Their main function is to increase the efficiency of websites. They also lend a helping hand in providing you the content based on your previous searches such as geographical region. There are different types of cookies for different actions. Session cookies- As long…

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First of all, What is POS breach? POS stands for point-of-sale. It is an attack where the criminal steals the 16 digit credit card number of customers. Once these have been stolen, they are sold for some pennies per piece. This information can be used for fake credit cards. Attackers mostly target small or medium-sized business for committing POS breach because these are less secure. It is a multi-stage process: Gain access to the targeted network By finding weak points of the network Or By forwarding a malicious link to anyone in the firm so that his computer may get…

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