A few years ago, Ata Hakcil, a Turkish computer engineer and researcher, accessed 1 billion login credentials leaked online and analyzed 170 million of them to study password trends. The results were quite revealing, and prompted many Internet users to pay more attention to how they choose passwords to protect their most sensitive information, including […]
Beyond convenience, an obvious benefit of technology is that it enables us to be more productive and more responsive to customer needs. But this sword cuts another way: technology is not only becoming more complex and difficult to manage, but more difficult to defend from the bad guys. The same is true of websites. Today’s […]
If you use a plug-in to keep your WordPress website backed up on the host server, you may be incurring two types of risk that can result in severe penalties.
WordPress is a popular content management system that is used to create feature-rich websites. Because it is built around open source standards, increasing levels of functionality can be added to your website through theme selection and plug-in software modules that also adhere to the standards. Of the major content management systems, WordPress is the platform […]
The amount of malicious activity on the Internet is growing despite the best efforts of security experts to foil it. When it comes to WordPress sites, attacks are launched across a wide variety of vectors. Whether outdated plugin code is to blame, or password reuse, or any number of other security flaws, no site owner […]
According to Cisco, companies today continue to be targeted with a variety of techniques that range from phishing and ransomware to supply chain and social engineering attacks. And while they are building defenses against these attacks, they still struggle to defend against them, slowed down by their own overly complex security postures that are dominated […]
Available since 2007, CAPTCHA and its variants are offered by Google as a free service to help protect websites from spam and abuse. The system distinguishes whether a site visitor is a human or a bot by requiring some type of action to be performed that could only be done by a human, such as […]
The U.S. government continually pressures tech firms against using end-to-end encryption to keep user communications private and away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. The Department of Justice argues that law enforcement must be able to view all conversations on all messaging platforms so it can better protect the public, especially children, from predators. […]
Ransomware is a type of malware that is used by cyber criminals to infect computers and encrypt files until a ransom is paid. After the initial infection, ransomware attempts to spread to connected systems, including shared storage drives. If the ransom is not paid, the files will usually remain encrypted and unavailable to the victim. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced that throughout October it will focus on ways to “Secure Our World” by educating the public on how to stay safe online. Toward that end, CISA will work to drive behavioral change around core cybersecurity habits by providing everyone with the knowledge and tools they need […]
