THE RANSOMWARE BATTLE To say that 2021 was rife with ransomware is almost an understatement and it seemed that the ransomware battle was almost unwinnable. Consider these 3 attacks as…
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WHATSAPP MISHAP In late July this year, powerhouse e-commerce giant Amazon received the biggest GDPR fine ever. The whopping $887 million penalty for allegedly targeting customers with unsolicited yet relevant…
HACKING AMAZON We all are conditioned into believing that hacking is illegal whether it’s hacking bank accounts, hacking Facebook and other social media accounts, or even hacking Amazon. The truth…
AMAZON BESTSELLER Prominence Publishing’s recent release, Cybersecurity Now, was named a Best Seller on Amazon in the Online Safety & Piracy and Viruses & Malware categories. It was also named…
THE NEW IT COLD WAR Historically, The Cold War was an era of ideological and geopolitical tension between the Western and Eastern blocs, primarily between the United States and the…
FACEBOOK PERSONAL DATA FREEFALL In early April this year, the personal Facebook data of over half a billion registered users was leaked online by a low-level hacking forum. The data…
TRUST NO ONE WITH YOUR NETWORK Former Forrester researcher and now Field CTO at Palo Alto Networks, John Kindervag, once said that administrators of computer networks hosting sensitive or critical…
THE DIGITAL DATA PRIVACY IDENTITY CONUNDRUM The connection between data privacy and digital identity may not be a conundrum after all. Rather, digital IDs may be a solution to identity…
Hack the Hackers May Be a Solution While a handful of cybercriminals are in it for the fun, most are not. Many criminal masterminds are after one thing and one…
DON’T USE WHATSAPP FOR BUSINESS! The expert view is that businesses should not use WhatsApp for business. Dr. Ajunwa, Assistant Professor of Labour and Employment Law at Cornell…
