Category: Security
DDoS Protection For Your Website
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Lire la suite: DDoS Protection For Your WebsiteSo 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,…
10 Ways To Keep Hackers Away From Your Data
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Lire la suite: 10 Ways To Keep Hackers Away From Your DataMost 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
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Lire la suite: What Is a “WHOIS” and How to Protect Your Personal Contact InfoValid 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…
2 common website attacks: DOS and SQL Injection
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Lire la suite: 2 common website attacks: DOS and SQL InjectionHackers 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…
Protecting your sensitive data from the POODLE vulnerability
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Lire la suite: Protecting your sensitive data from the POODLE vulnerabilityNote 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.
Canada ranks third for sophisticated malware sites
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Lire la suite: Canada ranks third for sophisticated malware sitesAccording 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.