Month: January 2023

Password Manager Benefits And Choices. Web users without password managers are three times more likely to experience identity theft than those who properly use them. Google’s findings: 25% of Americans are still using weak passwords such as pass123, abcpass, or

For keeping data backup copies, decentralized, distributed storage systems can be madeusing blockchain technology. These systems don’t use a centralized server; instead, data isstored among a number of network nodes. Because there are several nodes where copies ofthe data are

Due to the fact that they offer a practical means of achieving backup and storage, cloud storage solutions are extremely popular nowadays. Although most network or cloud storage systems currently support automatic backups, many users find backups to be uninteresting

Today, nearly a third of internet users use a Virtual private network (VPN). 82% of website traffic contains Google third-party script and half of them are tracking users. Since the beginning of the millennium, financial loss from data breaches of

Seven million unencrypted data records are compromised every day. Google says – 40-50% of emails sent between Gmail and other email providers still aren’t encrypted. The email encryption market is estimated to reach $11.80 billion in 2026 and $24.8 billion

One of the biggest spam email scams in history was the Nigerian letter scam, also known as the “419 scam,” named after the section of the Nigerian criminal code that deals with fraud. This scam involves the perpetrator sending a

50% of all websites had at least one significant exploitable vulnerability. 30,000 websites are compromised every day, on average. More than 60% of web applications are susceptible to XSS attacks. SQL injection vulnerabilities were discovered in 35% of educational institutions

Have you checked Viruses on your computer? 560,000 new pieces of malware are detected every day. There are now more than 1 billion malware programs out there.  Every minute, four companies fall victim to ransomware attacks. In the first half

In 2022, 15 billion unwanted messages a day, spams, phishings and malwares were blocked by Gmail. In 2020 were blocked by Gmail 100 million phishing emails. 1.5 million new phishing websites are made monthly. (Swiss Cyber Institute) How to defend