According to numerous recent reports (and borne out by our own experience after the past few months), the incidences of hacking and phishing attacks on websites and workers has increased by as much a 6-fold since the onset of the global pandemic. According to the Information Security Group, hacking attempts are up 37% month on […]
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At the beginning of this month, Facebook announced that as many as 50 million user accounts had been compromised by hackers who took advantage of a vulnerability in the “View As” functionality (which lets you see how your profile would look to somebody else), to steal Facebook access tokens allowing them to take over other […]
As of the next update to Google’s Chrome browser, (version 56) which will release by the end of this month, and the newest version of Firefox, browsers will warn users when entering password details on a page which is not served via HTTPS. It won’t prevent people from entering their details on non-secure sites, but […]