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Keeping up With Cybercrime in 2023

Our modern world has evolved significantly over the past couple of decades. The internet came around and shortly afterward we saw a massive technological development. From smartphones that can fit into your pockets to computers that you can carry around anywhere you go, there’s no doubt that technology and the internet have made our lives much easier and more convenient than ever before.

Businesswoman using cybercrime prevention tools

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You can work from anywhere in the world, find any movies or TV shows on demand, or even order groceries straight to your doorstep simply by using an innovative app. No one could ever have predicted that technology would have taken such an incredible turn for the better in such a short space of time.…

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6 Stages of Penetration Testing

Penetration testing is a valuable tool in the cyber security world. Without penetration testing, also known as “pentesting”, it’s almost impossible for security teams to know if their systems are effectively secured against threats.

Pentesting

If you’re interested in pentesting, you’ll need to become versed in blue team (defensive) and red team (offensive) tactics. The first step of this is understanding the six penetration testing stages.

1. Authorization, Information Gathering and Planning

The most important step of the penetration testing process is getting authorization to perform the test. Pentesting occurs in a controlled environment and is classified as a means of ethical hacking.…

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3 Types of Cyber Security Threats to Small Businesses and How to Avoid Them

By 2021, all the various types of cyber security threats will cost the world at least $6 trillion every year. Cybercrime, after all, doesn’t discriminate; it affects individuals, small businesses, and large corporations.

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Unfortunately, individuals and small businesses are those who are at the highest risk. For starters, they don’t have the funds to recover from the economic effects of such crimes. This is also why six in 10 SMBs that get attacked go out of business within six months.

As such, you should learn as much as you can about the most common cyber security threats. Knowing what they are can help you mitigate your risks of becoming the next victim.…

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What is Cryptojacking that Uses CPU Resources Without Permission?

Cryptojacking is a malware that mines virtual currencies such as Bitcoin mainly on websites and advertisements so that users who visit the site do not notice them.

Cryptojacking trend

To understand cryptojacking, I would like to talk a little about cryptocurrencies. As you may already know, virtual currencies are electronic currencies such as BitCoin, Ethereum, Monero and Ripple that do not belong to any country.

These virtual currencies use a mechanism called blockchain, and are not managed centrally by a specific nation or creator, but are shared and distributed among users and managed. Since it is not a centralized management, it is necessary to have a system to manage transaction records and prevent tampering.…

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DDoS Damage: Why Ecommerce Sites Are So Vulnerable, And What Can Be Done

When it comes to the bad things in life there are degrees of awfulness. For instance, falling down a flight of stairs is bad. Falling down a flight of stairs in front of an important potential business partner who does not seem interested in signing on the dotted line just because someone is pitifully holding an ice pack to his or her face is worse. Life is fascinating like that.

DDoS attacks

With DDoS attacks, there are a number of factors that contribute to an attack’s awfulness – size, duration, attack type – but one of the big ones actually has little to do with the attack itself and everything to do with the target.…

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6 Simple Tools to Boost Your Cyber Defenses

Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law holds that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law manifests itself in the world of cybersecurity when network security professionals devise a new defense against hacking, and hackers respond with new tools and techniques to breach a network elsewhere.

Cyber security tools

An organization may not be able to stop hackers, but it can at least stay ahead of them with a few simple tools that will at least slow down their development of new hacking tools in response to any new cyber defenses that the organization might implement. Six of the better cyber defense boosting tools are as follows:

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Cyber Security Threats and Your IT Team: Are They Ready to Protect Your Business?

Cyber criminal

Cybercrime is a serious problem that costs billions of dollars every year. Not only is it continuing to increase, cyber attacks are becoming more customized and sophisticated. Not only that, the list of computer crimes is growing. It currently includes:

  • Intellectual property theft: this includes theft of any copyrighted material, trademark violations and theft of trade secrets.
  • Phishing scams: hacking a computer and sending multiple emails with the intent to deceive recipients, often into sending money or giving out personal information.
  • Circumvention of security systems: interference with security cameras and alarm systems in order to gain illegal entry.
  • Spreading viruses: worms and viruses can have a devastating effect on your business’s continuity and cost you monetarily and in lost data.
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Ways To Improve The Cyber Security For Your Small Business

Owning a small business provides many perks, but unfortunately there is one major pitfall when it comes to being a small business owner and that is being vulnerable to a cyber attack. Small businesses can be easy targets for cyber attacks as many small businesses simply don’t have the resources and money to put into a huge IT team to ensure that all of their important business and client information and documents is secure.

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With a little training and education though, you can make yourself and your business less vulnerable to a cyber attack. Here are a few ways to improve the cyber security for your small business.…

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What Small Businesses Can Learn about Cyber Security from Corporate Solutions like Strixus

One of the major concerns that small businesses have is in finding the resources for Cyber Threat Detection that large corporations have at their disposal. Although small companies may not have the budget necessary to employ the latest cyber security threat detection for their companies, they can learn what it is Strixus does and how even a few small tweaks to their current cyber security can offer added layers of protection.

Cyber security tips for small business

According to CEO and co-founder of Massive Alliance, Brook Zimmatore, “It’s all about learning how we go about identifying threats. If you need a place to start, there are key areas of concern.”…

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Three Tips For Protecting Your Business Online

When it comes to doing business online, there are plenty of areas where you business could face danger. From hackers crashing your website and stealing information from you and your customers, to adware and spyware making use of your computer a pain, and costing you a good deal of money. For every way there is to protect your computer a hacker seems to come up with some new attack.

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All you can do is your best. Make sure that you have all of the items set in place to protect you and your customer’s information, and make sure that you are updating that software often.…

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