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What is a Secure Web Gateway (SWG)? For the perspective of a typical Joe or Jill of today’s computing, Secure Web Gateway is an alien name. However, it is simply a tunneling service, common people calls it the cloud, that securely connects data and applications between two different networks. It’s main capabilities offered are: Easily […]
Discussing the different stages of web malware attack, explaining how the malware makes its entry, how it gets distributed and then the other stages, namely exploit, infection and the execution. Protect yourself from web malware attacks. Also, Reads Malware Attack Using Google Cloud Computing Malware Attack Would Increase in 2018, Says Report
Since the web 2.0 development has become the common way to present a website to users these days, the manual programming of websites has been now old school. Most websites use a Content Management System backend to manage the publishing of the website’s frontend. One such mainstream CMS is Joomla, which has slowly but surely […]
New attacks that target a recent PHP framework vulnerability have been detected. It was last month that a code vulnerability was detected in the ThinkPHP framework; ThinkPHP is a rapid-development framework that is developed by TopThink, a Chinese firm. The vulnerability- CVE-2018-20062- was soon patched, but then a researcher detected new attacks targeting the vulnerability. […]
WordPress websites are very common now. The WordPress CMS is immensely popular and it’s easy to use as well, even for beginners. However, WordPress security is an area that many users tend to take rather callously. Remember, you can’t just get a website done, go on updating it and sit back and take rest. You […]
The new release of browser Chrome 68 from Google marks all non-HTTPS website as Not Secure, thus cautioning the user that they are on the website at their own risk. The original article on hackernews.com revealed this interesting information. If your website is still not certified SSL with HTTPS then here you have all the reason why your […]
The ban hammer is working tirelessly in Mozilla Land, as the non-profit Developer has recently deleted twenty-three Firefox add-ons from their https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ site that Mozilla detected for harvesting data from their users. Rob Wu, the Browser Engineer and Add-on Reviewer for Mozilla said: “The mentioned add-on has been taken down, together with others after I […]
Google Chrome is definitely one of the most popular web browsers being used today—but could it also be one of the riskiest? Hackers, as we know, are perpetually after whatever gets popular in the world of the internet. This because whatever is popular would help them target more people and steal more data. Thus, Google […]
Google’s Chrome Browser is now labeling all non-https website as explicitly “not secure.” With the release of Chrome 68 yesterday, all http websites will now display the tag “not secure” in the address bar. Those sites with the proper http measurements in place will be unaffected by this move. For those who still don’t know, https is […]
For any business, the website that the company has means a lot. In fact, the website could be counted as one of the most valuable and important online properties that any business owns. Hence, it’s important for any business to devote time and resources to protect its website from cyber attacks. A hacker, by executing […]
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it doesn’t have to ruin your next adventure onto the darknet. Sure, it can be a highly dangerous digital environment, but it can also be navigated safely and confidently with the right precautionary measures. It is the main hangout area for hackers, spammers, and the like, who are […]
As we hit the browser day in and day out we have seen how the web security has taken to new heights. Today HTTPS encryption means the website is secure, and any website that runs on HTTP is not secure, and this is gradually marking its signature across the security forums. As reported in 9to5google, […]
Watch closely the below Ad-blocker extension, and if by any chance you have installed in your Google Chrome browser, and then you are in for a surprise. Yes, you could have been hacked. Five malicious ad blockers have been spotted by a security researcher nearly 20-million users across the world have installed the Adblocker. Nevertheless, […]
What happens to the data of an organization when their system is hacked, obviously those stolen data end up in the data market. The hackers sell it to what is known as the dark web. Dark web is a website that is not indexed by the Search Engines and can only be accessed if you […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users’ personal information. The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached. Facebook stores details of almost every action you have taken and interaction you […]
This could come as a shocker to many internet users: cybercriminals can build a web dossier about you based on the information that they gather out of the routine web browsing that you do! California-based cyber security firm Exabeam has published a blog on this very interesting topic. The blog post, titled ‘How Criminals Can […]
WordPress is perhaps one of the most popular free, open source content management systems (CMS); it’s said that WordPress powers 30 percent of the internet. Now, let’s look at the other side of the picture; whatever is popular on the internet is likely to be targeted by cyber criminals as well. Well, they could only […]
Symantec and Microsoft are working together to provide added protection for Azure and Office 365 as they move to make it easier for companies to adopt a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Microsoft and Symantec will work together to ensure added protection to users for Azure and Office 365. This move is likely to make it easy […]
More than 4000 government websites across the world has been attacked yet again, and this time again it’s the new player Cryptocurrency. The strain of malicious malware has made its way, as reported. The attack seems to have started on February 11th and went on until 12th of February morning. All that the hackers wanted was to […]
Edward Roberts, Director of Product Marketing at Distil Networks, says “Many marketers assume website security is not their problem. However, as the stewards of their organization’s external brand, marketers must understand how the brand is impacted by activity on the website. This includes malicious bot traffic that could deteriorate the user experience and skew analytics”. The article as quoted […]