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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games & cyber threats

The organizing committee of the Tokyo2020 Olympics has decided to use the expertise of about 200 ethical hackers to protect their infrastructures from possible cyberattacks. Organizers fear that history may...

Port scanning: a double-hedge sword?

19 Jul

Port scanning refers to the activity of determining which port within a network can receive and send data, by sending packets to specific ports and analyzing responses to detect flows...

Firmware security: why it matters

31 May

While securing other critical components of their infrastructure such as hardware and software, businesses often neglect firmware security. Being the basic core of all its hardware stuff, an organization is...

FragAttacks: new Wi-Fi vulnerabilities found!

17 May

A few days ago, a Belgian security researcher, Mathy Vanhoef, has found and named as “FragAttacks (fragmentation and aggregation attacks)”, a dozen of unknown security flows affecting Wi-Fi devices. Within the radio...

Vulnerability Assessment: an overview of a crucial cybersecurity task

10 May

Vulnerability assessment is a task in delivering an effective cybersecurity strategy in both the corporate and public sectors. It is vital to bring about risk awareness, and it is the...

Cybersecurity analysts: what they do and why their work is vital

05 May

Cybersecurity analysts are the core of an organization’s security, private and public alike. They have a vital task: ensuring that their IT assets are secure and protect them from violations...

Penetration testing: what it is and why it is important

03 May

Penetration Testing (Pen Test) refers to the activity of systematically attempting to violate a vulnerable component of a system to discover the security breaches in it through a simulated attack....

Cybersecurity career: 4 reasons to consider it

19 Apr

Pursuing a career in cybersecurity can be tempting. Figures show that this industry tends to have a zero unemployment rate. Nowadays, the labor market requires cybersecurity skills more than ever....

Smart working: how to mitigate cyber risks

07 Apr

Smart working is a fertile ground for cyber threats and criminals. As steps to counter the coronavirus outbreak take effect, millions of workers worldwide have been sent home with their...

Cybercrime: how can we all deal with it?

31 Mar

One of the biggest cybersecurity dilemmas is the following: “Can we avoid cybercrime?” After all, online identity theft and fraud, hackers, ransomware cyber-attacks, phishing, and other scams are threats to...