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Cyber Hygiene Essentials: What You Need to Know

Tenable

The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited. Vulnerabilities can be errors in application coding, unpatched flaws in the operating systems of hosts on the network, devices on the network with insufficient security measures or other complications.

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5 simple measures you can take to improve your company’s security

Strategy Driven

That software includes not only anti-malware software and firewalls but also the web browsers and operating systems your workers routinely use. That’s why it wouldn’t be well-advised practice – and why you ought to isolate your payment systems from other software that falls short of the same security standards.

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10 Important Cybersecurity Tips

Strategy Driven

Cyber attackers also aim for identity theft; extortion attempts to access to bank account details. This is also software designed by cyber-attackers to gain unauthorized access and can even cause damage to a computer system. Attacks can be as little as stealing your family photos or as big as hacking bank accounts.

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8 Tips for Surviving Black Hat and Other Hostile Networks

Palo Alto Networks

The largest amount of data consumption at every Black Hat conference is generated by systems retrieving updates, with Microsoft and Apple splitting that traffic almost 50/50. Run a personal firewall: Make sure to enable firewalls that come with your operating system.

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Crypto Wallet – Definition, Types and the Top performing wallets this year

Openxcell

Desktop wallets are hot wallets as they are supposed to be connected to the desktop to operate. These wallets are secured using several protections like firewalls, malware removal tools, antivirus software, etc. It also protects private keys against malware attacks and allows offline storage of coins.