Behind the Screens: Are Your Text Messages Safe from Hackers? I explore the realities of text message hacking: who is vulnerable, how hacking can be accomplished, and what you can do to safeguard your messages. By Suzanne Kantra on September 27, 2023 ...
Fortunately, hackers and thieves cannot get to your financial or personal information if you take some steps to protect yourself. The most effective tips for student cybersecurity can be learned by anyone and practiced daily. Understanding the threats Any electronic device that can connect to t...
especially if they are public networks. When you are at home, or conducting work at the business you own, a secure wifi connection is crucial for data protection. It is fairly simple to improve wifi security. First, you will want to lock your wifi so that only people with the password, ...
My intention of including the link in my original post was to point out that every Google security misdeed was introduced as a harmless feature. “We simply want to drive down every street to give you a view of your street with your map searches,” led to capturing not only every WiFi M...
You also won’t necessarily just need to work from home. If you travel with your work, you may need to use a Wifi connection at a hotel or cafe to access business data. This is where a VPN is essential, as other devices connected to the network can monitor your traffic. If it’s ...
Ryan Ermey: The last piece of advice is to make sure that your WiFi isn't visible to other people in your vicinity. As entertaining as I always think it is when people have kind of funny or clever names, evidently one of my neighbors, their name is Murphy, so their WiFi is called ...
and steal data. Some hackers are specifically targeting unsuspected users who access a public WiFi network that looks safe, but is really vulnerable to attacks. There have been cases where hackers created fake WiFi networks that seem innocent (calling them names like ‘Coffee Shop’) but, it ...
rendered vulnerable their sensitive information like credit card details. This occurred because the airline’s passenger system, managed by IT solutions provider SITA, was compromised in a cyber-security attack. The hackers ended up gaining access to data collected over a 10 year period (2011-2021...
“MFA is critical, but not all MFA methods are created equal. Twitter used application-based MFA, which sent a request for authentication to an employee’s smart phone. This is a common form of MFA, but it can be circumvented. During the Twitter Hack, the Hackers got past MFA by convin...
That seems to imply that if I take my personal laptop into my office at work (where I have no WIFI or easily available Ethernet) and I need to read something in my saved mail I'll see nothing on the screen. I that true?Anonymous July 13, 2012 The comment has been removed...