Category: Security & Privacy
Keeping safe
The Illusion of choice and the need for default privacy protection
Since July 2019, Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection has blocked over 450 Billion third-party tracking requests from exploiting user data for profit. This shocking number reveals the sheer scale of online tracking and it highlights why the current advertising industry push...
How tech is transforming the intelligence industry
Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations held in 2018, former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats argued that he...
WordPress File Permissions: Securing Your Website
WordPress file permissions and ownership play an integral role in the overall security of your WordPress website, which is why you should be sure to get them right. In this post, we’ll cover all you need to know about WordPress...
How to Send Self-Destructing Messages in Gmail
How to Send Self-Destructing Messages in Gmail The art of the ephemeral email Some messages are meant to be private. The longer they sit around in your inbox, the more likely it is they’ll end up in the wrong place...
An exposed password let a hacker access internal Comodo files
A hacker gained access to internal files and documents owned by security company and SSL certificate issuer Comodo by using an email address and password mistakenly exposed on the internet. The credentials were found in a public GitHub repository owned...
How to Recognize Scams Targeting Your Website
One of the downsides to owning your own website or domain is that you have to register, mostly using personal information, in a public directory of sorts. Anyone can look up a URL or site and immediately see the owner,...
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: July 2019, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of this month, so we want to keep you aware. We divide the WordPress Vulnerability Roundup into four different categories: 1. WordPress core 2. WordPress Plugins 3. WordPress...
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: June 2019, Part 2
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the last half of June, so we want to keep you aware. We divide the WordPress Vulnerability Roundup into four different categories: 1. WordPress Core Vulnerabilities 2. WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities 3....
How WordPress Websites Get Hacked
Your website is like a home – secure if you take the appropriate precautions, but vulnerable to burglars if you don’t. In the website world, however, sites don’t get burgled, they get hacked. The number of sites that get hacked...
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: June 2019, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during this month, so we want to keep you aware. We divide the WordPress Vulnerability Roundup into four different categories: 1. WordPress core 2. WordPress Plugins 3. WordPress Themes 4. Breaches From...
Google’s own data proves two-factor is the best defense against most account hacks
Every once in a while someone will ask me what is the best security advice. The long answer is “it depends on your threat model,” which is just a fancy way of saying what’s good security advice for the vast...
Which vSphere CPU Scheduler to Choose
The release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 brought with it a new vSphere CPU scheduler option, the Side-Channel Aware Scheduler version 2 (SCAv2) or “Sibling Scheduler.” This new scheduler can help restore some performance lost to CPU vulnerability mitigations, but...
Magento GDPR: 7 Steps to Protect your Store (and your Customers)
After decades of loose online legislation and abstract digital data guidelines, the Wild Western days of the internet are ending. User privacy and data protection are frequently debated issues, especially with the recent concerns regarding morally questionable social media practices....
What is 2 Factor Authentication and How Can It Be Useful?
You may have heard how important 2 factor authentication (also known as two-factor authentication or 2FA) is for securing your online accounts. Don’t be embarrassed if you find yourself asking “What is 2 factor authentication?” Don’t worry, not knowing puts...