As the workplace grows increasingly mobile, employees are using smartphones and tablets to access the company network. This increased access means increased vulnerability for sensitive data, intellectual property or other proprietary information. While your company should have clear policies regarding what employees can and can’t access on mobile devices, good cyber security guidance always ... »
For all of you that thought that Google was the ultimate search engine, enter Shodan, the search engine that can connect you with any device connected to the Internet. This includes anything from door locks to cameras all the way to heating and cooling systems of both residential and commercial buildings. While this seems like quite a security risk, Shodan could also prove to be a vital ally to th... »
Clueful for Android is a free application made by Bitdefender, the antivirus company that shows you how your installed applications on Android devices (smartphone and Tablet) abuse on your privacy. When you install Clueful on your smartphone, it immediately starts scanning all your applications on the device, it will then give you a grade of high, medium, or low risk in terms of your privacy. Priv... »
Over the course of the last 24 hours, internet security companies like Hostgator & CloudFlare have reported that there is a large scale, distributed WordPress botnet attack right across the internet. Looking at the reports from these companies, the WordPress botnet attack seems to be a simple dictionary brute-force attack that is aimed at the WordPress admin back-end. The aim is to gain access... »
None of us like to think about things like death or serious injury. But unfortunately it’s a necessary evil that we all must plan for. Now that many of us have a lot of data in the cloud, health insurance isn’t enough; we also need to make sure that our “digital will” is filled out as well. Google have just made this a whole lot easier with the release of the Inactive ... »
WordPress is a great system, which is run on millions of sites across the globe. However, such massive popularity breeds security risks so securing your WordPress site is extremely important. Here are five of the best plugins to secure WordPress… Cloudflare Cloudflare is a double whammy, as not only does it help secure your WordPress site my monitoring the traffic that hits your site, learni... »
Hacking is a huge problem across the whole of the internet, and with recent stories like Twitter being hacked it’s obvious that hacking is alive and well all over the internet. So Google have decided to step in and help. It’s not just the big boys Just because your site isn’t as big as some of the ‘big boys’ who have recently been hacked like Twitter & LinkedIn,... »
Anyone who uses a computer should know how important security is, especially if you spend a lot of time online like I do. If you’re a Windows user then you absolutely need to have a good anti-virus program. Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 is an all encompassing Internet and machine security suite that works really well at keeping your device in tip top s... »