Category: Informative Blogs

Informative Blogs

How hackers ruin video games

Video games are a highly competitive environment and people are always looking for a competitive edge. One way that people do this is through specialized software called game bots. These are software bots that give players advantages within the game by automating different aspects of the game for the player. Since the software is always going to be faster than manual actions, it will give the player a competitive advantage.

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How has remote work affected the cybersecurity industry?

ost countries are beginning to come out of the pandemic we can look back and see the real impact that it had on society. One of the big changes that everyone had to get accustomed to as being part of the remote workforce. When it comes to cyberattacks Some people like working from home because of the freedom it gives you and the time that it saves on commuting. But on the other hand, many people struggled to work from home. According to Forbes, 45% of people that worked from home said they felt that they were less mentally healthy while working from home. 97% of people said that vacation days were important for recharging even though they were working from home, which in theory should be more relaxing than going to work.

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How to secure your cryptocurrency wallet

have made a lot of money through bitcoin, many people have lost a lot of money on bitcoin as well and it’s not always because of the price going down. Did you know 20% of all bitcoin has been lost due to users forgetting their passwords to their bitcoin wallets? Unlike fiat currency which could be replaced, there’s a good chance that these bitcoins will never be returned to the marketplace. If you hold your bitcoin through an exchange this may not be a concern for you but if you are someone that deals with bitcoin wallets directly this is something you should be mindful of.

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Hackers and NFTs

NFT stands for non-fungible token and it’s a unit of data stored in a blockchain that certifies that a digital file is unique. For comparison let’s look at another popular technology that uses the blockchain, like bitcoin. Bitcoin is fungible, this simply means that no single bitcoin is distinctly different from the next, the only difference is who owns that bitcoin. However, every NFT is unique. Non-fungible simply means that they cannot be substituted for one another because they are one of a kind. 

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New OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities

OWASP stands for the open web application security project and it’s an online project that creates free content on securing web applications. One of their most famous projects is the OWASP top 10, which is a list of the top 10 web applications vulnerabilities. Recently OWASP has done a revamp of the OWASP top 10.

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Anti-Fraud – Phishing Scams & how to protect yourself

Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most popular and efficient types of social engineering attacks used to cause data breaches. It’s estimated that 3 billion phishing emails are sent every day in 2021. Phishing emails take advantage of a person’s trust to gain access into the corporate network and it’s extremely difficult to stop because it is typically delivered through email, which must be enabled for business to take place. However, there are many mitigations that you can put in place to reduce the likelihood of users seeing these emails and limit the damage that may be done if they do see the email.

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Zero Trust Model Explained

before giving them access to company resources. The zero-trust model as the name suggests means that you shouldn’t implicitly trust anyone, regardless of where the request is coming from. This means inside the network, outside the network, or coming from a trusted network you should still have processes in place that require a user to authenticate before giving them access to a company resource. This way regardless of where an attack is coming from, they won’t be able to bypass the security mechanisms that you have in place.

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