NETSCOUT discovered a substantial surge in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in 2020. This is in the trend set after the pandemic started, according the company.
DDoS attacks, triggered by home working
As
most of the users started…
Showing
annoying ads has become a way hackers try to trick users into
clicking them or push notifications and infecting their Windows
computers.
In
fact, attackers use the malicious ads to inject lots of unwanted
programs on the victims’ systems, while users are…
Funny ads might be delightful for most of us. We appreciate the ingenuity, the idea, the result and the fact that they are different. And this is a good thing.
It might even be the reason for which we do not mind to see more ads like those.
On the other hand, the…
Online fraud is now more than ever a way that hackers explore in order to make easy money. Thus, they try to mislead users into clicking fake ads or even hijack the users that click on legitimate ads.
What is online fraud?
Well,
according to the
Collins…
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is standard mechanism for formatting web pages. Developers use it to define text styles, for instance, but also other aspects of the web pages.
Why is CSS very useful?
Well, Cascading Style Sheet is the
standard that helps developers…
Online
privacy is every user’s most important and
valuable asset. “Valuable” literally means that companies can
convert it into money.
Just
to have a better idea, in 2016 only, search
engines made over 100 billion dollars, partly by selling your
personal data…
Many systems offer a way for backdoor attacks. This means the attackers install malware, such as trojans and cancel the authentication procedures. Thus, they affect a computer system, a network, a server or a software app.
What are backdoor attacks?
Attackers
are…
Any user should know how to avoid ransomware attacks as they are, in fact, malware attacks that encrypt victim’s files. Then, the attackers ask victims to pay a ransom, in order to decrypt them. Usually they ask for huge amounts of money in cryptocurrency. Recently…
An online pandemic also
occurred during the COVID 19 crisis. Google, for instance, announced
that it discovered more than 18 million daily malware and phishing
emails just in one week. They came besides the 240 million spam
messages related to the new coronavirus.
What…
With the new update from Zoom, admins will have the possibility to disable personal Meeting IDs to stop intruders. As the popularity of video conferencing apps increased, with the lockdown, a Zoom phishing campaign started in April. In fact, the attackers asked recipients…
