What Is Phishing and How Not to Fall into Its Nets
Phishing is a special kind of online fraud, which presupposes fishing out the user’s login and password or another sensitive information with the aim to enter the naive user’s account and to cause damage both to the user and to the system the hacker managed to get access to. What is the phishing attack and what are its objectives? One of the main phishing methods is mass mailing, often from a bank or another service. For...
9 Data Protection Tips for Safe Online Shopping
Annual sales season is in full swing! Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas Sales cause an unprecedented stock-jobbing. Everyone wants to make his or her best bargain in 2015. Besides, today there is no need in exhausting shopping in malls and emporiums. We can order everything from home with the help of the computer or smartphone. But, in anticipation of the holidays and bargains we should not forget about the importance of data...
Identification, authentication, and authorization – what’s the difference
Identification, authentication, and authorization. We all face these three concepts every day, but not everyone knows the difference. Since these terms are essential in data protection, they deserve to be explained better. To begin, let’s take an example from everyday life. It will help you to understand the difference between authentication and identification in general. A new employee comes to work for the first time. At the...
Password Manager KeePass Is Vulnerable
It is not news that a fair amount of threats waits for the user in the vast global network. And it is clear that the best way out is to keep valuable information in encrypted form and protect it with a strong password. But the fact that it is possible to “pull” out in a form of a simple text file all the data from the password manager – the program which encrypts and generates passwords – became a surprise for...
Cybersecurity Lesson from T-Mobile and Experian
Recently, the whole world and especially the U.S. citizens have been stirred up by the news about the leakage of credit history data of 15 million subscribers of the international mobile operator T-Mobile. What is notable in this story is that the information was not stolen directly from T-Mobile’s database but from the servers of its partner – Experian. Considering this example in details gives a valuable cybersecurity...