Why is healthcare data security so important?
Health is the main value of every person. But we start understanding it only when there is a threat to lose it. The reason for the latter may be not only bad habits or accidents but also viruses. Both common flu, and … computer viruses. Since we started to use electronic medical records healthcare data security became one of the most important aspects of data protection. Let’s find out why. In recent years, the...
Information Security Trends 2016
Today, the computers and the internet are not only the toys to help people spend their free time. Above all, they are the most important work instruments. Their safety and effectiveness determine business success and prosperity of a large number of people. Thus, it is not surprising that today information security is the matter of interest to many. What are the main information security trends of 2016? What challenges should we cope...
New Vulnerability of the LastPass Unveiled
Any active Internet user has many accounts on different websites. And each of them requires a username and password. Since it is impossible to keep everything in your head, a regular user usually writes them on a piece of paper. And puts it somewhere not far from the computer (we have already written why it is not recommended to do so here). An advanced user, in turn, uses password managers to store this information. But, even...
The Worst Passwords of 2015
It is not a secret that the Internet users tend to choose weak and unreliable passwords. And even more! People use this weak password in almost all their accounts. And the list of the worst passwords of 2015, which was recently published by SplashData, proves that all the efforts to convince people of the importance of using strong passwords were vain. For several years, the palm belongs to the notorious “123456” and...
Strong Authentication Methods in 2016
At the beginning of the new year, everyone is trying to predict what it will bring: what trends will prevail in the economy and politics, what outfits will be the most fashionable, what books will possess the minds and souls, how inventors and developers will surprise and delight fans of technological progress. Let’s try to predict how the technologies and strong authentication methods would develop in 2016, what new things are...