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Protect your company’s computer network with penetration testing

Protecting your computer or your company’s network of computers is critical to your success in the online arena. Every day thousands of people around the world are hacked by outside resources. Once these hackings take place many individuals and companies lose access to sensitive files or have their entire computer based infrastructure rendered useless. Therefore, [...]

Pen testing can protect your computer network from possible threats

Every day hundreds of thousands of computer users around the world become the victims of online attacks. These individuals and companies will in some cases have their entire computer networks deemed useless after such an attack. Additionally, many companies will lose thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars due to these types of attacks. [...]

What is SCADA Penetration Testing?

The cyber world is full of acronyms and one of the most important is SCADA. SCADA is short for “supervisory control and data acquisition” and refers to a computer system that collects and analyses a constant flow of data. A SCADA system is used to monitor and control some of the most essential systems in [...]

Three ways that adware and spyware can enter your computer system

In some ways computers are just like people. I say this because inside there are very sensitive parts which could also be compared to software. If there was an infection, the result could potentially be fatal, and the entire system could crash.
Here are three ways that adware or spyware can get into your computer:
-The [...]

Get Rid Malware

Computer users frequently happen upon sites with malicious intentions and ensnaring links, and most have no idea until symptoms of existing malware occur. One day, such a user might open their internet browser only to be plagued by a continuous and periodic stream of pop-up ads, and of course, a slowness in performance, all of [...]

How To Stop Getting Infected with Viruses

The internet is a dangerous place these days no matter if you have a PC or MAC, you download or you don’t. In this article I’m going to show how to protect your Windows PC with some free software that essentially makes your PC impervious to ANY virus (or potential unwanted programs – PUPS) [...]

New folder virus remover – Effective tool

Unfortunately, most of companies didn’t pay enough attention to appearance of Newfolder.exe or couldn’t defend themselves from it. Some time ago a lot of users have found that their PCs were infected by Iddono. Newfolder.exe seems to appear on every PC in the world shortly. We have some interesting observations which prove an increased possibility [...]

5 PC Security Mistakes You Should Stop Making ASAP

Below you will find several mistakes which I find to be typical of PC users. Not all of them are crucial alone, but taken together they can have a drastic impact on overall PC security. It doesn’t cost a dime to know what you shouldn’t be doing at all and what you should be doing [...]

Internet Security: 8 Proven Tactics to Eliminate Threats from Spam, Viruses, and Hackers

As an online business owner, you face treacherous Internet security risks every single time you’re online. Viruses, hackers, and spam await you at every turn. The reality is that these threats are always going to be a component of being online and doing business online. Unfortunately, they seem to be here [...]

Understanding the Process of Vulnerability Assessment

In computer technology, vulnerabilities are defined as the primary gateways where network security threats are manifested. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by hackers and criminal elements and will try to penetrate the network either to steal information or to wreak havoc and disrupt operations. That is why network administrators should regularly perform vulnerability [...]