Footprinting (also known as reconnaissance) commonly refers to one of the pre-attack phases; tasks performed before doing the actual attack. In other words, footprinting is the first step in the evaluation of the security posture of the target organization's IT infrastructure. During this phase, a hacker can collect the following information − Domain name IP [...]
The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance a legislation which provides security provisions and data privacy, in order to keep patients’ medical information safe. The law has emerged into greater prominence in recent years with the proliferation of health data breaches caused by cyberattacks and ransomware attacks on health insurers and providers. [...]
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the network or Internet. Also, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online [...]
A technical support scam refers to any class of telephone fraud activities in which a scammer claims to offer a legitimate technical support service. The scammers may pretend to be from a well-known tech company, such as Microsoft. The scammer will typically attempt to get the victim to allow remote access to their computer so [...]
There are small and large manufacturers that produce powerful anti-malware. So you have to choose one of the products of these manufacturers. There are not many differences between the products of these manufacturers in terms of quality. In fact, there is a very close competition between these products. In this website, we have introduced the [...]
Creating and managing user accounts is one of the most important steps in securing a computer. You need to be able to create a work account on your PC and manage its various aspects (such as password and expiration time, access level). The subject of this post is creating and managing user accounts. [...]
8-Step to Secure Your Computer Whether you use your computer primarily for work tasks or personal use or both, it’s highly likely you want to keep it and its contents safe and secure. Keeping your computer secure helps you avoid malware and direct hacking attempts designed to steal your personal information. In this post, we’ll [...]
Encryption software is software that uses cryptography to prevent unauthorized access to digital information. We have already discussed the concepts of cryptography in detail in a separate post: Data Encryption. Software encryption uses a cipher to obscure the content into cipher-text. Ciphers are into two categories: Public key (Asymmetric) ciphers: This method uses two different [...]
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a tool in the Windows operating system for encrypting the entire contents of a drive from a computer hard drive. In this post, we do not intend to discuss the concepts of cryptography. You can read this post to understand these concepts. This tool in Windows 10 is located in the [...]