Browser extensions are both a boon and bane in personal/corporate Internet-centric computing, it is beneficial to users as it extends the features of the browser, while unfortunately expanding the attack surface of web browsers. That is why browser vendors are making a tight balancing act between enabling browser extensions and plugins with reasonable-level of access

Two years ago in 2017, the world was caught off guard by a very destructive ransomware named WannaCry. With its infection success rate, estimates revealed that ransom payment for WannaCry went up to $4 billion that year. The NSA’s former top secret weaponized bug in SMB (Server Message Block) version 1 went to the wrong

Global cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, in their State of Email Security report, revealed that their study revealed that UAE’s cyber impersonation cases are up by 75%, which caused financial loss for the victims. The report is a result of the aggregate information coming from more than a thousand IT leaders from multinational companies, with

When it comes to security risks in using the Internet today, many people may first think of malicious attacks on PCs, smartphones, and servers by malicious third parties. But we are at the wake of the massive Intel-processor MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) security bugs, which can only be mitigated 100% with the complete disabling of

Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero division, announced the discovery of a code bug in Notepad, Microsoft’s popular text editor. The problem was privately conveyed to Microsoft, and it was made public after 90 days. No additional information is currently available, because Microsoft has not solved the problem yet. According to sources

When a news aggregator app becomes a part headline news, that only means trouble, a lot of trouble. Flipboard, a mainstream news aggregator app with 500 million+ downloads with at least 150-million unique active users monthly from the Google Play Store alone disclosed that their user account information database fell for a massive data breach

We may be witnessing a massive change in the enterprise IT space, fueled by the evolution of personal computing. The days of companies spending a lot of its funding in purchasing physical servers, maintenance, energy and the labor cost of running it 24/7 with regular hardware refresh cycle are fast becoming outdated. Yes, there is

Nowadays, mobile security ranks high on the list of concerns for all companies, and this is for good reason: now almost all workers access company data from smartphones on a regular basis. It means that keeping sensitive information safe is an increasingly complex puzzle. The stakes are higher than ever: The average cost of a

A cyberattack can paralyze critical infrastructure and businesses and create negative pressure. In other cases, this can lead to litigation between you and your company. These and other factors, can seriously harm a company and force many of them to pay for data recovery and computer security services to repair the damage. However, many companies

The world’s rapidly increasing cyber attacks do not know where to stay and are evolving their attack methods on a daily basis. Many companies regardless of size are good prey for attackers. The impact of cyber attacks continues to increase, regardless of the size of the company or organization. Most people will think security measures