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Most SMEs and startups believe that cyber attackers wouldn’t be interested in them courtesy smaller frameworks and restricted financial reserves. However, based on a report released by the Verizon Data Breach Investigations, at least 61 percent of the hacked...![How a ransomware infects your computer [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://www.seqrite.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Ransomware-1-150x110.jpg)
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Education is a constant process – it never stops. While we have spoken about ransomware at great lengths in the past, there is no reason why we should not be doing that again. Ransomware is probably the most dreaded...
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Educating oneself when it comes to cybersecurity is extremely important and should always be stressed upon. A better understanding of this subject increases the chances of staying safe from the existing threats. More often than not, the importance of...
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Data breaches and cyber-attacks are common occurrences which usually proliferate at an exponential rate. While it is important that enterprises tighten their enclosures, it is also advisable to understand how cybercriminals prepare for a breach. Hacker surveillance is one way...
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Most of the organizations have already moved on to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to protect their data in motion. We like to believe that once SSL protocol is implemented our data is safe from the hackers. However, the hackers too have learned to take...
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Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing the infamous Locky ransomware outbreak which kicked off recently in the last week of September. The outbreak started with spam email with various subjects and different attachment names. On 26th September, spam campaign delivering a new...
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Software developers ensure that there are no security gaps when they release a new version of their software, be it an application or an operating system or any other kind of software. However, it is impossible to design a...
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Malware, including ransomware, viruses, trojans are a grave threat to organizations. Out of these, ransomware is unique. Not only does it steal and corrupt data, but it also locks out the users from their own systems so that taking...
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In 2014, the office of personnel management of US government was breached and records of about 18 million people were hacked. In India, four government websites were hacked and Aadhaar data (India’s social security scheme), of 130 million people...
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An organization spends significant amount of money and effort on implementing cybersecurity yet it can be breached. In such situations, how does an organization identify if it had taken enough measures to protect itself before the breach occurred? This is where a security...