Everything is going digital these days, including your banking. It’s definitely handy to have access to your finances on your phone, but it leaves a lot of people wondering whether online banks are safe and about the protections in place to keep your data — and hard-earned money — secure. Online banking first became available …
It’s estimated that the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks will reach 16 million per year by 2022 — double the total that occurred in 2018. Much of the growth comes from cybercriminals expanding the number and types of attacks they execute. Hackers have moved beyond the financial services sector, for example, and …
As humans, navigating the internet helps us connect, engage, and create. In fact, the average person spends a massive 24 hours a week online. The digital world is filled with cybersecurity threats and cyber crime, however. Hackers attack every 39 seconds, and more than 158 accounts are hacked per second. Visiting the wrong website, opening …
The longer you have a desktop or laptop computer, the more data and files you accumulate. Think of all the photos, emails, documents, and downloaded attachments you have saved on your computer. You probably don’t need some of them anymore (and thus should digitally shred them), but you might want to preserve others for future …
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Anti-malware services provider IObit provides innovative software for system utilities. Its offerings are designed to improve computer performance and security by removing adware, malware, ransomware, and other threats to keep it safe from bad actors. The company’s software is relatively popular, too, having been downloaded more than 250 million times, won over 100 awards, and …
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The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a new wave of cyberattacks. With more and more people working from home, it became easy for hackers to access sensitive data. The reasons are a serious lack of security measures and the absence of a sound remote work policy in businesses. To protect your company from cyber threats and avoid …
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There are many valid reasons and advantages to move away from the traditional office model and staff your company with a remote workforce. If you’re considering sending your employees home to work, there are things to consider. You can’t just lock the doors tomorrow morning and hold the afternoon meeting over Zoom. In 2020, more …
In the days before the Digital Age, file destruction was as simple as feeding files into the paper shredder. Since the dawn of Big Data, however, confidential, personal, and sensitive information is no longer stored in a plain manila folder and sitting in a massive, gun-metal-grey file cabinet, waiting to be shredded. Electronic files need …
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