Every year since 2004, October has been a month where cybersecurity receives additional emphasis. National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) was started by the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division and the National Cyber Security Alliance to help Americans stay safe online. [Read more…]
One of the biggest parenting challenges that today’s generation of parents have to grapple with is how to control how much of the outside world their children are exposed to through the internet. [Read more…]
One of the cybersecurity protections that you may have heard more about during the pandemic is a virtual private network (VPN). The shift to remote workers has many companies looking for ways to keep their data connections secure, and a VPN is one way to do this. [Read more…]
Using the cloud for file storage has a lot of advantages. It makes it easy to access your files from anywhere, can save you if you have a hard drive crash, and makes migrating from an old computer to a new computer setup much easier. [Read more…]
Several factors have caused credential theft to become one of the major causes of data breaches, and one that’s a rising threat. It’s used in about 77% of all cloud account breaches because it gets hackers past stringent account security that keeps them from breaking in another way. [Read more…]
There has been a lot of controversy about video social media app TikTok recently. It started off with the skyrocketing popularity of the app and now there are serious questions about its ties to information gathering and the Chinese government. [Read more…]
There are certain things in the cybersecurity world that tend to stay the same from year to year, such as phishing being the number one delivery method for malware. [Read more…]
The pandemic has completely changed home and work life in a number of ways. One of the biggest is that people have been working from home due to shutdowns, something that’s expected to continue even after the coronavirus crisis has passed. [Read more…]
If everyone already didn’t have enough to worry about, scammers have been taking full advantage of the disruption and anxiety related to the global pandemic. [Read more…]
One of the first things people used to do when getting a computer was to install an antivirus program. Viruses have been around for quite a while, long enough that most PC users understand the need to defend against them. [Read more…]
