How to Protect Yourself From Email Hacking
We have almost stopped writing paper letters, those on crispy brand-new sheets. The lion’s share of the correspondence is now sent via emails. And often it is not even personal correspondence. For personal purposes, we have different messengers and can have an interactive dialogue. Usually, emails are used for sending business letters, which contain sensitive information. Thus, the email data protection is extremely important...
How to Secure Bitcoin Wallet
A couple of years ago Bitcoin made quite a stir all across the mainstream media when the price skyrocketed. People that never even heard about blockchain, cryptocurrencies or Bitcoin wallet suddenly started looking into buying some. That’s when more and more horror stories from people that lost all their assets due to a lost password or stolen keys started to appear in common press, like the Guardian. Though we’ve all been...
Keylogger Definition, Detection, and Protection
There are hundreds, if not thousands, types of malware spread online. Out of them all, keyloggers can legitimately be considered the worst. We are not being dramatic here. If you get infected with a keylogger virus you basically show the hackers everything typed on the keyboard. Passwords, credit card credentials, messages, everything you search for, all of it gets to be exposed and easily stolen. Read on to learn: the keystroke...
9 Must Follow Gmail Security Rules
Gmail is perhaps the most used email service, with which people exchange terabytes of information daily. A typical account contains lots of personal details such as banking data, digital identities, passwords, trade agreements, etc. Unfortunately, despite the service’s popularity, positive reputation and constant effort of its creators, personal data is not protected enough. Besides hidden security mechanisms that work...
4 Reasons Two-Factor Authentication Isn’t a Panacea
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an indispensable cybersecurity measure used to protect data. Most of the modern information security standards despite the area of application such as PCI DSS, PSD2, HIPAA, etc., demand the multifactor authentication (MFA) among other data protection methods. This approach allows mitigating the danger coming from such attack vectors as brute force password cracking, keylogging, social engineering,...