Category: Security

September 9, 2021

Security analysts are once again warning of another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft products after reports emerged of active exploitation of CVE-2021-40444, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the MSHTML component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and several […]

September 1, 2021

More than a quarter of security leaders in the UK say remote-working employees either circumvented or purposely turned off security tools and services, and a third admit compromising their organisation’s security to some degree in order to facilitate the practice, […]

August 31, 2021

Whoa is what I kept thinking as I tried ProtonVPN, a Swiss-based VPN service that is dedicated to providing only privacy to all. When I first tried to use it on my Mac desktop, I began to be mysteriously logged […]

August 26, 2021

Some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, have earmarked billions of dollars to help raise the cybersecurity stance of the industry as a whole following a meeting with US President Joe Biden. Earlier this week, the […]

August 20, 2021

We all know data privacy does not exist in isolation. It is not a solitary indication of an enterprise’s morality and compliance, separated from the operations and lifeblood of the organisation. As an indication of this, we are beginning to […]

August 18, 2021

A virtual private network (VPN) is the perfect solution for a lot of issues you might experience online- accessing blocked sites, hiding your browsing activity, getting rid of internet throttling, finding better deals, and much more. But does a VPN […]

August 17, 2021

Digital applications and platforms have become an essential feature for organisations, even more so since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions imposed on the public. Organisations are moving swiftly towards building next-generation digital platforms to fuel digital […]

August 9, 2021

A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distributed through Google Play Store and other third-party app marketplaces. Dubbed “FlyTrap,” the previously […]

August 5, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue that affected hosted DNS service providers and can be exploited to monitor incoming traffic and map the victim’s internal networks. At the recent Black Hat security conference, the security researchers Shir Tamari and […]

August 4, 2021

A 12-year-old security vulnerability may be affecting routers built by “dozens of manufacturers”, exposing millions of users worldwide. According to researchers from security firm Tenable, the CVE-2021-20090 vulnerability made its way into modern routers due to the reusing of old […]