Public WiFi Security: Is Free WiFi Really Free?

What are the different risks in using free WiFi and how you can eliminate them with a VPN? Offering free WiFi has become a staple of any good service, regardless of the sector, making public WiFi security one of the biggest concerns today when it comes to our privacy and cybersecurity. It is always nice

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What are Spoofing Attacks and How to Prevent Them?

For humans and computers alike, one of the main issues when talking about personal data protection is trust. Sadly, IP Spoofing is used to abuse the trust you and your devices have towards other members of your network and to damage either your connection or your equipment. Usually, when talking about cybersecurity, you will hear

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How is Blockchain Affecting Cyber Security

Blockchain technology is revolutionary and will bring meaningful differences in how people do business. How is blockchain affecting security? In order to stay away from rugged definitions and cumbersome visualization, let us, for starters, try to imagine Lego blocks in a digital world. Every time a transaction is made, in a digital sense of the

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Data Privacy Day

Today is the Data Privacy Day. In Europe this day is known as the “Data Protection Date”; and its objective is to make people aware of protecting their information and activity when they surf the Internet. Since the Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection, signed in 1981

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Big Data: Why Do Companies Collect And Store Personal Data

Why do companies collect data and store our personal data? Because big data is money, why else? Read on to know learn more about data mining business and big data. Why Do Websites Collect Data And Store User Data? In the old days, at the dawn of computing, computers had very little ability to recognize

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Prowli Malware Affects More Than 40,000 IoT Devices

Malware issues are a common concern for the internet security. Experts regularly come across malware that targets servers, routers and IoT devices. The latest malware is the Prowli malware. This botnet has already affected more than 40,000 internet connected devices across the globe. Prowli malware makes use of different techniques like abuse of weak configuration,

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Korea’s Coinrail Loses 40 Million Dollars In Altcoins

As we continue to digitalize, there is an increasing need for cyber protection and securing ourselves in the cyber world. Whether connecting with family and friends, we use social networking websites. At the same time, online banking, work-related emails, etc. all occupy the same webspace across the globe. While cyber protection is of utmost significance

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Net Neutrality Law To Officially End On June 11

The Battle for Net Neutrality has started to take on dangerous proportions, but the signs were apparent since the term was coined back in 2003. The Net Neutrality law comes to an end in the US on June 11th, and this has ramifications all over the country. Net Neutrality ensured that there was a level

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LocationSmart Exposes Location Of Millions Of Americans

Recently, the location tracking website LocationSmart was in controversy for all the wrong reasons. They made the location of millions of real-time users readily available on a free demo public page. The free demo page did not ask for subscriber’s consent before giving away his or her location. The company took immediate steps of reform

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Data Breach of 156,000 Uber Users in Brazil

After the ongoing controversies of Facebook’s data breach, now it’s Uber. Recently, Uber apologized to its 156,000 users in Brazil. Personal information of these users was leaked in a major data breach in 2016. However, the company paid hackers to stay mum about the security breach for over a year. There are a large number of

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