Insider threat is an intentional or unintentional misuse of organization’s data by an insider – an employee, a former employee, a subcontractor or a partner – anyone you have kindly granted access to. While ransomware or cyber attack may sound more scary, the vast majority...
Last January, I was talking with a cyber security expert and hacker (he said he is one of the good one). He told me he was doing some penetration test on an oil tanker and he hacked its firmware because the password was 1234. A strong...
Cyber-attacks and data breaches are on the rise, and it’s easy to believe they’re all caused by criminal hackers out for financial gain. However, this isn’t the case. Last quarter, it was found that four of the five leading causes of data breaches are because...
We discussed BitCoins, we saw what cryptocurrencies are and how they are related to a blockchain. Yet, what is a blockchain? A blockchain is a system that allows the certification of a certain "event" in a decentralized, secure and unchangeable way. Let's look more closely...
Cyber crime can change your life in the blink of an eye. Given the opportunity, hackers will take your data, your identity and your finances within minutes.There are some basic precautions everyone using the Internet should take to protect themselves from cyber crime: 1 USE STRONG PASSWORDS. Password...
Cyber crime is a criminal activity that involves a computer or digital media and a network – in most cases, the Internet. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target. Cyber crime may threaten a person...
THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT CYBER SECURITY. Today’s cyber criminals are more high-level than you might think. They work quickly and can easily evade traditional detection methods. Unfortunately, the majority of breaches remain undetected for weeks or months, allowing hackers to exploit an organization for an extended...
Nowadays Internet security is particularly important for both business and customer. Every consumer should distinguish whether a site is secured before revealing the confidential information, while every online business owner should implement the preventive security measures in order to keep the sensitive information safe. In addition,...
BlockChain and BitCoin are almost unknown terms with regard to a technology that cab be defined as "disruptive" (volatile, radical, that explodes on the market, overturning the life of consumers from one day to the next, while sending its predecessors into oblivion). Let's try to...
Meltdown and Spectre are hardware vulnerabilities that allow programs to steal data on the computer. The flow is in the CPU architecture and that's mean Meltdown and Specre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider's infrastructure, it might...
