Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, many people are considering working from home. Some of them will probably take home a business laptop, which has been prepared by the IT Department. From a cybersecurity standpoint, this is the best option: the employee takes home a ready-to-use device, with all software pre-configured...
27.03.2020
The 2013 Edward Snowden publicly confirmed something, which many of the IT experts were suspecting for years: the fact that an average computer makes for an excellent tool for spying on us. The media storm ensued. Soon afterward, a flurry of privacy-oriented products and services popped up, as the society,...
24.02.2020
During one of the online seminars conducted by CyberForces and Xopero on the topic of Internet security and social engineering, numerous attendees asked me to outline how encrypted e-mail works and how can one start utilizing it in their day-to-day operations. Since the topic is very broad, I thought this...
29.01.2020
Anyone using YouTube lately has probably seen the all-prevalent ads: if you purchase a private VPN service, you’ll be safe online: your traffic will be fully encrypted, your ISP will not track you, on top of that, you’ll get access to content otherwise blocked in your country. For a few...
30.12.2019
“If the door is locked, try the window” — that’s the motto, used by more and more cybercriminals, unfortunately, successful. Just replace “the door” with “the system security” and “the window” — with employees. Today we will talk about techniques that hackers use to perform social engineering attacks. What are...
16.12.2019
Whether we like it or not, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is here to stay. Long-gone are the days of IT managers making company-wide decisions when it comes to preferred mobile platforms. Today almost everyone uses their own mobile device in a work environment – whether the IT department is...
22.07.2019
‘Eight pizza delivery boxes with 30% discount and a free gadget for the computer’. Hackers posing as pizza delivery carried on a successful social engineering attack on the Warsaw branch office of a well-known international corporation. In a few minutes, they hacked the IT system – effectively paralyzing the operations...
03.07.2019
Without a doubt, WordPress is our favorite Content Management System (CMS) in recent years. According to most recent statistics of W3Techs, WordPress accounts for roughly 60% of entire CMS market share in the first quarter of 2019. Other CMS platforms, such as Joomla and Drupal account for less than 7...
10.06.2019
Security testing has become an essential part of any sort of testing, be it mobile applications or websites. As such it’s becoming one of the crucial skills any QA specialist should have! What if You could learn from top experts during the online conference focused only on security testing? Secure...
15.05.2019