When the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that it had been hacked and gotten its security testing tools stolen, they uncovered something much larger. A spyware implanted in their IT-management and security platform Orion had infected their system, a platform that is used by a majority of U.S governmental and private institutions. Solarwinds, the company behind …
With a large part of the world working from home due to Covid-19, the need for a good and simple video conference solution was urgent. Zoom being intuitive and powerful enough to handle the onslaught of users, filled that need. As millions of users flooded to Zoom so did the hackers and security researchers. They …
A good password is usually the first and only line of defense for your important web-services. Choosing a strong and memorable password can be a hassle since those two criteria don’t always go hand in hand. It’s tempting to reuse an old password, slightly modifying it, or even write it down on a text-file in …
Introduction: How Bitidentify protects Bitidentify SDL is built around one simple principle: You can’t hack what you can’t see. A hacker needs to have internet access to a computer in order to hack it; if there is no internet access, he cannot find it or connect to it. This is the core of our security; …
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The simple answer is that hackers break into computers by exploiting vulnerabilities. The vulnerability might not even be computer-related; it can be a new employee unfamiliar with the companies security routines. Finding vulnerabilities They exist in all systems, and there are two kinds; known and unknown. Known vulnerabilities are often the result of needed capabilities. …
In today’s world information has become our most valuable commodity, it’s also our most vulnerable. Everyday when you are using the Internet, information about you and your habits is constantly collected and sold to the highest bidder. And what’s worse; you are giving it to them for free and in many cases without consent. In …
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