Prevention
What to do when you are hit with ransomware?
May 12th of this year witnessed a global Wannacry Ransomware outbreak which targeted more than 200,000 computers across 150 nations. The cyber threat not only exploited all unpatched Windows machines but once again proved that the digital world is extremely vulnerable to sophisticated cyber attacks. Cyber Security firm Kaspersky released a recent white paper titled […]
Preventing Account Takeover (ATO)
This post was originally published here by MIKE MILNER. Hackers are dedicated criminals. They will work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities in your website and network—because there is a lot of money in it for them when it works. One popular way of breaking into a system is to take over the account of a validated […]
How Does Whonix Make Kali Linux Anonymous & How to Prevent It?
This post was originally published here by Irfan Shakeel. The Internet was not designed with anonymity in mind, but things have changed. Anonymity has become a necessary and legitimate objective in many applications (browsing the internet, chatting, sending instant messages etc.). The main reason for this is that even if traffic is encrypted, only the […]
How Do You Define Prevention?
Scott Simkin wrote an interesting post about How Do You Define Prevention? that I would like to share. “In discussions about cybersecurity, a word that gets used a lot is “prevention.” How do you prevent cyberattacks before they succeed? Will the cybersecurity measures currently in place offer the prevention of losses due to a cyberattack? What part of an attacker’s […]
