The speeding progression of networked technologies has seen a rise in both the number of vulnerabilities within a system and an increase in both the number and sophistication of the tools used to take advantage of them. Companies managing financial and personal data of millions of clients, companies such as commercial banks, are looking at …
Ransomware is a kind of harmful software that restricts the access to certain places and/or files of an infected system and asks for a ransom in exchange of removing that restriction or encryption. As outrageous as it sounds, it is not a new thing; ransomware has been around for almost three decades now. With the …
IoT technologies are now fast becoming part of most activities and functions we perform as individuals, organizations or as societies, creating ever increasing number of benefits for everyone across the board. But its very basic characteristic of connecting every thing on the internet for achieving automation and efficiency, brings with it the increasing risk of …
In today’s day and age, it is fairly likely that you’ll have heard of bitcoin, a relatively recently created digital cryptocurrency. However, it is a little less likely that you will have heard of blockchain technology, although, if this is the case, it will most likely not be that way for long. With the value …
Over this year alone there has been a huge push for websites to enable secure communications over the internet through the adoption of HTTPS. This has amounted in a not insignificant increase in the number of websites using HTTPS as, according to statistics from Let’s Encrypt, 65% of the webpages that were loaded by the …
There are so many predictions for 2018 when it comes to cyber security. Gathering them all would make an endless list. So let’s focus on the ones that are more likely to happen. GDPR will be effective in May 25th in the European Union. Programmers and engineers are working on developing ways to stop or …
