Social Media Visible Threats – Are You Still Ignoring Them?
How social are you? Today, the answer to this question is defined by the number of social media accounts you own and the amount of time that you spend online.... Read More
Social Media Invisible Threats – Beware You May Be A Victim
Social media is an authoritative connectivity source that brings your distant friends, relatives, associates, and family members together. It allows you to share any content immediately among your group of... Read More
“The Great Hack” – Uncovering the Most Popular Cybersecurity Vulnerability
Despite a year of continuous data privacy scandals, including 2018’s Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the world has witnessed several other misuses of personal data. A year ago, Facebook vowed to... Read More
Everything You Need to Know About Firewalls and Everything to Avoid
In today’s digital landscape, top-notch network security solutions are the need of the hour. Apart from concrete anti-malware programs and different cybersecurity solutions, having a proper network security plan with... Read More
An illuminating talk with the cofounders of the women in cyber security ME group
Cybersecurity Ventures predict that there will be around 3.5 million jobs by 2021 in the cybersecurity industry, whereas, women represent only 20% of the global cybersecurity workforce in 2019. [1]... Read More
How NOT to Handle a Cybersecurity Incident!
Most of the time, it is some untoward cybersecurity incident that teaches organizations the significance of cybersecurity. The investment of resources to strengthen information security is still not prioritized and... Read More
Minimizing Risks Using Incident Management
The incident-response preparation phase is an ongoing process that should strategize risk management by minimizing legal, operational, and reputational risk. When multiple attacks hit an organization’s network, data and infrastructure... Read More
Implementation of EMV Chip Cards to Improve Cybersecurity
Financial institutions have been and continue to be one of the favorite targets for criminals across centuries because they are the direct sources of money and perhaps the main first... Read More
IoT in Healthcare – Is Security Still a Priority?
St. John Sepis Agent, DocBox, and the identification of environmental factors affecting babies in hospitals are three recent and classic illustrations to demonstrate the impact of IoT in the healthcare... Read More
Best Practices for Effective Incident Handling in an Organization
As organizations are adopting new ways to contain the increasing volume of cybersecurity threats and attacks, incident handling has become one of the prominent solutions. It is the process of... Read More
Malvertising: What It Is and How to Avoid It
What is Malvertising? Malvertising is the act of using online ads to make your computer vulnerable. It is often confused with adware as both attacks use ads to infect the user’s computer. The primary difference between the two is... Read More
Most Common Cyber Vulnerabilities Part 5 (Security Misconfiguration)
The last part of the “most common cyber vulnerabilities” series covers “security misconfiguration,” a dangerous and insidious vulnerability that can have a catastrophic impact, if not mitigated properly. The earlier parts of the series deal with other fatal security vulnerabilities—injection flaws, buffer overflows, sensitive data... Read More