For the average business, the expense of dealing with a successful cyberattack is quite high, running into millions of dollars. For a startup, the effects are usually worse. First, there’s the high cost of fixing the damage, something that may not be affordable by the startup which might likely not have started making a profit.
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It was 10 years ago that the EC privacy directive was published and became law. Better known as the “cookie law”, it was meant to give web users transparency and control over Cookie, the small chunks of code that follow them around the net, powering adverts, remembering login details, and personalising websites. For example, when
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While we try to leave Europe and the pesky law makers in Brussels, we will soon have to adopt the EC’s Second Payment Directive or PSD2. Come 14 September this year Strong Customer Authentication or (SCA) will be forced on us and all credit card transactions in the EC will have to abide by these new
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We have writen about the importance of good Password management and ways to create strong passwords and importantly how to record, remember and manage passwords. Like all things web related this could do with an update for 2019. This article on Password Creation caught our eye. It brings real world solutions to the forefront with
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Establish a Safe Password Policy… We have all ready about the massive data breaches and security scares that impact millions of web users. In fact many breaches are caused by one seemingly innocent common factor: computer and mobile device users reuse their passwords on multiple websites at an alarmingly high rate. Many users have come
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Once again the banking malware BankBot has been discovered lurking in Andoid apps in the Google Play shop reports ZD Net. BankBot is not nice and rather clever. It is designed to steal your banking credentials and payment information. It tricks users into handing over their bank details by presenting an overlay window which looks
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Look Out on Windows PCs As you must know by now a nasty form of malicious software known as ransomware has been making headlines after cybercriminals hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, impacting the NHS and many others. Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people’s data and
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HNS hit hard As many people know there is a wide-spread and serious global PC hacking attack. The BBC and UK papers report numerous hospitals and the NHS in general have been especially hard hit with many thousands of PCs compromised. The virus is bad, as bad as they get. An infected PC spreads the
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Report shows growing number of website cyber attacks come from hacked home routers WordFence report that in the past month alone they have seen over 57,000 unique home routers being used to attack WordPress sites. Those home networks are now being explored by hackers who have full access to them via the hacked home router.
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