If you scan the news headlines, you might be forgiven for thinking that the biggest target of online attackers is financial institutions. Cyber attacks aimed at banks typically gain a lot of press coverage, because everybody likes to think that their money is safe. In…
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Samuel Bocetta
Retired Research Engineer and Freelance Journalist
Retired Research Engineer and Freelance Journalist
7 Cybersecurity KPIs That Security Analysts Should Focus On
Being a CyberSec specialist is frustrating. It often seems like a new cybersecurity key performance indicator (KPI) is invented every week. However, there are some good reasons for this. A main source of frustration is the need for cybersecurity teams to constantly justify the cost…
Current Cybersecurity Market Strong: What’s Driving It?
Cybersecurity is a big business and it’s going to get bigger. Individual users, small business owners, and IT professionals at international corporations know that threats occur every day. Staying ahead of those threats is the only way to protect proprietary data, network integrity, and network…
Setting Up A Self-Signed TLS/SSL Certificate on Apache
SSL is a fundamental piece of technology when you want to run a protected Apache site. SSL certificates permit you to scramble all the traffic sent to and from your Apache site to keep others from seeing the majority of the traffic. It utilizes open…
How To Clean A Hacked Installation of Nginx
There are literally hundreds of ways to secure & solidify a Nginx server after an attack. But, what does it REALLY need to be cleaned and secure? What are the essential changes you have to make to feel secure again? To answer that question, we’ll have…
Setting Up A Free TLS/SSL Certificate With “Let’s Encrypt”
SSL is short for secure sockets layer, which is an encryption standard that is used to encrypt data going between the browser in the server. In other words, an SSL protects data submitted on your site via visitors and customers. You set up SSL by…
How To Protect Your Website Against A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack
One of the most common methods that hackers use/will use to attack your website is a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Basically, an XSS attack is where a hacker will take advantage of an XSS vulnerability to execute a malicious JavaScript when users visit your website….
6 Simple Ways To Protect Your Website From Attackers
If there’s one specific reason why website owners don’t take steps to boost their online security to protect their blogs and websites from attackers, it’s usually because they believe one of two things: They don’t believe their website or blog has anything worth of real…