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Windscribe defines itself as "a set of tools that work together to block ad trackers and web beacons, restore access to blocked content and help you safeguard your privacy online". Basically, it is a VPN service with some additional privacy and security protection features such as the R.O.B.E.R.T.You should...
The Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) List of Top 10 Internet of Things (IoT)Vulnerabilities sums up most of the concerns and attack vectors surroundingthe IoTcategory of devices as below:Insecure web interfaceInsufficient authentication/authorizationInsecure network servicesLack...
WiFi Alliance has just introduced WiFi CERTIFIED WPA3 (Wi-Fi Protected Access version 3) as the next generation WiFi security standard, bringing new capabilities to enhance WiFi protections in bothpersonal and enterprise wireless networks.Key capabilities of WPA3 include:WPA3-Personal: more resilient,...
The Cyber Kill Chain introduced by Lockheed Martin is a cybersecurity model to describe, in general,how acomputer intrusion (hacking) through IT network is carried out in 7 distinguished stages. Itwasdeveloped based onmilitary attack kind of thought.Anyhow, there is no common...
Cryptography is the method of converting plaintext information into non human-readable form called ciphertext through a process called encryption, and reverse process to convert the ciphertextback tooriginal formcalled decryption.Today, knowledge in cryptography is crucial for every...
If you were told or forced toset upa so-called "strong password" which required to be determined as complex (must consist of combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, and so on...) just to safeguard your user account from password guessing, peeping, and/or...
Web browsers Google Chrome(with 57.69% global market share as of March 2018) and Firebox (with 5.4% global market share as of March 2018) will start to distrust all the websites with SSL/TLS certificate issued by Symantec, Verisign, Thawte, GeoTrustand RapidSSL.This means that soon in the near...
CCleaner by Piriform (recently acquired by Avast) is a famous software that comes with both free and paid versions, made available to Windows, Mac and Android users to do housekeeping in their computer or Android smart mobile device to clean up junk files and junk registry entries, in order to optimize the...
Databases are among the most valuable assets in the information system as they store valuable and vital data and records of the business. As such, they are also among the most interested place of intrusion for hackers, attempting to gain access to confidential and sensitive information from within. ...
"A lot of people use Dropbox. A lot of people put a lot of valuable, sensitive and personal data inside Dropbox. A lot of people make the mistake of not encrypting their valuable, sensitive and personal data before they put it inside Dropbox. Which all adds up to a whole heap of trouble if Dropbox...
Yesterday (2 August 2016) there was news about 15 million Iranian Telegram users mobile phone number exposed and more than dozen accounts compromised by hackers. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This incident exposed that SMS, which is currently commonly used as authentication method in many...
Today is the first Thursday of May, the World Password Day! It is observed to create awareness of the need for good password security practice. Nowadays, password is used everywhere, being a commonly used security mechanism for: identity verification authentication of access control...
I use Norton Internet Security as the security solution for my home computers, and use the Norton Identity Safe that comes with it to store my web accesses identity information. Few days ago, when I tried to open my vault in my web browser as usual, I found out that I can't login to Norton Identity Safe. ...
Mozilla Firefox version 39 onwards will by default block the HTTPS connections to web servers using weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DH) keys. Bear in mind that by default, Firefox is set to automatically update itself from time to time, so your version will eventually be updated to version 39 and above.
One day, I found that there was no new email coming in to my Mozilla Thunderbird email client for quite a long time, but I could still receive new emails from the same server with my smartphone. I looked into the Error Console of Thunderbird by going to Tools Error Console (you can also press the...
WebBrowserPassView by NirSoft is a Windows freeware password recovery tool that can reveal the websites password information that you have stored in web browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. This means that anybody who has physical or remote access to...
If you want to recover or undelete your deleted or lost files (photo, video, music, document, email, etc.), you can try a Windows freeware called Recuva by Piriform. Recuva works on any rewriteable storage media you have, including internal and external harddisk, SD card, USB drive, and even iPod. It is...
On 27 March 2015, Lenovo has released the latest BIOS update (version 76CN42WW) for Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro ultrabook laptop. On the same day, Lenovo has also released the latest BIOS update (version A6CN49WW) for Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro ultrabook laptop. This latest version BIOS for Yoga 2 Pro and Yoga 3 Pro...
