How to create a safe password. Learn some tips here to properly protect your email accounts and utility accounts? You will see among other things how to have the best password possible without it being complicated or difficult to remember.
3 Main Reasons Websites Are Hacked
So many reasons could explain the cyber criminality committed on the internet. You’ll find in this article three of the main reason why a cybercriminal would like to hijack your website. You’ve been told that your website security has always been, and will always be important, after reading this blog you will better understand why.
2 common website attacks: DOS and SQL Injection
Hackers have many ways of attacking your website, and it’s important to stay up to date on the most common attacks so you can do what you can to prevent them from occurring. Malicious individuals can attack your data via your computer or they can infect an entire network. Two of the most common website attacks are Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and SQL Injection attacks.
Protecting your sensitive data from the POODLE vulnerability
Note that Astral Internet customers can rest easy when it comes to the latest SSL vulnerability: our customers will be happy to learn that they are already protected from POODLE, as all of our shared cloud hosting clients (and clients with service included) are patched to protect against the POODLE security flaw.
DDoS Protection For Your Website
So what is the dreaded DDoS? A Distributed Denial of Service attack usually starts with hackers infecting thousands or even millions of unprotected servers and personal computers and turning them into zombies or bots. All these botted computers combine to create a massive network or botnet of compromised computers that will do whatever the hacker, sometimes called a bot herder, asks them to.
10 Ways To Keep Hackers Away From Your Data
Most businesses hang on to too much data for too long. And it’s often data that they don’t need. Or worse, didn’t realize they even had. So do a spring-cleaning. Do an inventory of all your data and everywhere you keep it.
What Is a “WHOIS” and How to Protect Your Personal Contact Info
Valid WHOIS information is also needed to conduct a domain name transfer. Additionally, it is used by law enforcement for criminal investigations, by the public to determine when a domain has expired, by anyone who wants to contact the domain name owner. With this information, we can determine the owner of a domain name, its contact person in the event of a problem (the domain name administrative contact), and the technical contact administering the domain name.
Canada ranks third for sophisticated malware sites
According to the report card, Canada ranks third in the world for hosting malware, ahead of countries such as Germany, Russia and even China, which has faced allegations and accusations that it enables cyber-attacks and sponsors corporate espionage.