Tag: cybersecurity
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USB Juice Jacking Is New Way Hackers Attack Travelers
How to avoid being hacked this vacation season. According to a recent study by cybersecurity firm NordVPN, one in four travelers has been hacked when using public Wi-Fi while traveling abroad. However, unsecured Wi-Fi is not the only factor travelers should be worried about. This month, the FBI published a tweet (see below) warning users against smartphone…
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Amidst Waves of Data Breaches, U.S. Gov Advises Agencies: Implement Zero Trust Architecture
Arguments and questions keep rising following the FAA outage that happened early this year on January 11th, 2023, which resulted in the complete closure of the U.S. Airspace and most of the airspace here in Canada. Although the FAA later confirmed that the outage was, in fact, caused by a contractor who unintentionally damaged a data file related…
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Study: Is your phone reading your mind? 33% of Canadians have noticed being tracked by their gadgets
Digital privacy expert discusses the possible violation of privacy and security of cross-device tracking Third of Canadians (33%) have ever noticed an ad on their devices of something they recently spoke about or saw on TV (but hadn’t searched for), according to research by NordVPN, a leading cybersecurity company. A majority of them noticed such ads…
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Cyber Warfare: How Digital World Became Battlefield
Cybersecurity expert explains how virtual wars are fought With the Russia-Ukraine war in full swing, cybersecurity experts point to a cyber front that had been forming online long before Russian troops crossed the border. Even in the months leading up to the outbreak of war, Ukrainian websites were attacked and altered to display threatening messages…
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Top sites data breached last year include linkedin
Almost 6 billion accounts affected in data breaches in 2021 The year 2021 was record-breaking in terms of the sheer size of data breaches. According to the data collected and analyzed by the Atlas VPN team, 5.9 billion accounts were affected by data breaches throughout 2021. Atlas VPN has retrieved and calculated the numbers of breached…