Just how important is computer security and protecting your data? Computer security is the process of preventing and detecting the unauthorized entry into your computer or the use of it. Prevention measures help you stop hackers from accessing any part of your computer system. Detection helps you to determine whether or not someone attempted to break…
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Everything you need to know to protect yourself against cyber threats and attacks. Learn how to secure your computer and data from cybercriminals.
What is Spectre and Meltdown? Spectre and Meltdown are the names given to different variants of the same basic and underlying vulnerability that affects nearly every computer chip manufactured in the last 20 years. Because of this vulnerability, if exploited, it can allow cybercriminals to get access to data previously considered completely protected. Security researchers…
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One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist, or a computer techie, to analyze that anything that uses the internet and a network is prone to hacking, and this includes the technology for smart homes. The smart home industry using the Internet of Things (IoT) is currently estimated to go all out in the mass…
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What is DDoS? Distributed Denial of Service attacks or DDoS attacks can often be intense as it may indirectly involve hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world and huge amounts of traffic. The attacks can last for hours or days depending upon the intent of the attacker, rendering a website, server or entire…
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What’s worse than losing all your treasured photos of your loves ones? Or losing all those personal or work documents? Imagine if all these important files become corrupted or gone — that would be chills all over your body. That’s why the best protection you can provide for your files is a regular data backup…
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Fileless malware attacks, also known as non-malware attacks, allow cybercriminals to skip steps that are needed to deploy malware-based attacks, such as creating payloads with malware to drop onto users’ systems. Instead, attackers use trusted programs native to the operating system and native operating system tools like PowerShell and WMI to exploit in-memory access, as…
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Getting an alert to restart your computer because it just finished its automatic update for the operating system or computer software always seems to happen at the most inopportune times. More often than not, and unfortunately, many put off or even cancel the updates, without knowing the consequences. Actually, failing to follow on with the…
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