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When it comes to validating the identity of any public key infrastructure, digital certificates hold all the aces. A digital certificate is more of an electronic snippet that lends legitimacy to a web service or portal— associating the same...Information Technology, Network Security & Cybersecurity Updates
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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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Spam email campaigns have increased with the use of multiple random techniques which improve the efficiency of payload distribution to spread malware to more number of users. These attacks have been randomly observed to have increased rapidly in numbers;...
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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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With the increase in mobility of users, their usage and the access to the organization’s information assets extending to off-campus locations, the security perimeter keeps continuously changing. This has led to a situation that a simple security solution within...
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The airline business is unique. While public perception about aviation is that of a luxury business; the business world sees it as a financial behemoth reeling under debt burdens. Only people from the aviation industry and a few from the security industry understand that...
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jRAT (Java Based Remote Access Trojans) malware is not new but its activity has increased recently in the last few months and they are targeting various organizations. Per day, Quick Heal Security Labs identifies thousands of spam emails carrying...
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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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Welcome to our Cybersecurity News Rundown for the month of September 2017. Here, we will be sharing latest and trending news on events and technological updates from the world of cybersecurity that happened over the past month. Make sure...