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The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said in its DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4 published last week. “This surge in cyber attacks […]
Humans are complex beings with consciousness, emotions, and the capacity to act based on thoughts. In the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity, humans consistently remain primary targets for attackers. Over the years, these attackers have developed their expertise in exploiting various human qualities, sharpening their skills to manipulate biases and emotional triggers with the objective of […]
Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have published a joint advisory warning of an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021. The incidents singled out a broad range of sectors, including defense, emergency services, agriculture, government facilities, IT, healthcare, financial services, education, energy, charities, […]
A VPN, short for Virtual Private Network, protects you from threats on public networks, and it can also shield you wherever you are from the probing of governments, companies, or your internet service provider itself. It encrypts your data before it even leaves your computer, making your presence online anonymous and untraceable. You could compare […]
As a long-promised feature of the digital age, artificial intelligence is finally making real strides into many aspects of mainstream security. From personal computing systems to vast online casino networks, this is a development long promised. Offering considerable advantages over traditional methods, these specially-designed systems will indisputably become a pronounced form of protection going forward, […]
We live in a world where anonymity and online privacy are impossible things. Your phone calls can be tapped, smartphone data can be stolen, and even the camera and microphone can be turned on remotely. You can be watched from the satellite, in real time. We all live in the matrix and its special services […]
HackerCombat recently wrote sharing tips for safe online shopping during the Black Friday- Cyber Monday shopping season. Yes, as we had mentioned there, the November- December shopping season witnesses a surge in shopping and consequently hackers also try their best to make the most of this season, attempting some hacking and data breach, which would […]
FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) proposed a web authentication standard that aims to replace the traditional password-based authentication with more seamlessly secure and smooth login methods. IT teams behind widely used web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have now devised methods that will kill off password-based authentication on […]
The communications ministry in Japan has reportedly decided that it is not necessary to keep changing internet passwords regularly. The ministry instead advises citizens to use one hard-to-guess password per online account. The Asahi Shimbun reports- “It is not necessary to regularly change Internet passwords, the communications ministry has decided in a rejection of conventional […]
Small business make up more than 70% of the targets that cyber criminals go after. They are the most targeted for several reasons including the fact that they have less security to begin with and they use public forms of keeping connected to their employees. It has been found that small businesses have a really […]
The common perception is that a strong password is always a good password, but GCHQ thinks otherwise; urging people to use “simple passwords” to keep themselves protected from online threats. According to the new guidelines outlined in a report prepared by GCHQ in the password guidance report, it urges that passwords should be short and less confusing which […]