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Cybersecurity Basics: Everything You Should Know

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Today is the world wide web’s 31st birthday. We can hardly imagine work, school, and our daily lives in general without it. Because of the world wide web, we now have cat videos, instant messaging, online banking, and heated discussions on whether pizza should come with pineapple.

How did the technology come about? Who and why created it?

The world wide web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. Learn how the web evolved to be one of the most important technologies used today?

Who invented the world wide web?

The Story Behind the World Wide Web

A few minutes ago, you decided to visit nordpass.com. You typed it into your browser and poof! You’re here. Have you ever wondered what happens in the background?

Learn about different kinds of DNS spoofing and how these attacks can be prevented.


What Is DNS Spoofing?

Session hijacking is a cyberattack that has been around for a while. Hackers utilize the underlying internet technology to perform this attack, so it’s not likely to disappear anytime soon. And even though session hijacking is hard to spot until it’s too late, there are a few things users can do to make sure their connections and data are safe.

Session hijacking is an attack when hackers use cookies to impersonate you online. Learn how to prevent bad actors from getting their hands on your cookies.

What Is Session Hijacking?

Password managers, 2FA, encrypted messaging apps, antimalware, secure file sharing — people are starting to really pay attention to their online security. But there’s one more tool you can use to take your cybersecurity game one step further — a virtual private network (VPN). Read on to find out what it is, how it works, and why you should start using it.

VPN protects you by securing your internet traffic with cutting-edge technologies. It ensures strong and reliable encryption between your device and a remote server. Learn more about VPN and how it will protect you from unwanted intruders.

What is a VPN?

What Is a VPN?

Clickjacking is when a cybercriminal tricks a user into clicking an invisible element on a webpage, thereby ‘hijacking’ the user’s clicks for malicious purposes.

Boost your security and prevent clickjacking now.

What is clickjacking – with examples

What Is Clickjacking?

You check your phone and are frustrated to find that the last three text messages you’ve sent haven’t gone through. You’ve got enough data left to send them, so what’s the issue? You spot the dreaded words ‘network unavailable’ in the top right corner of your screen. Unfortunately, you’ve been the victim of a port-out scam.

Have you had your phone number stolen and your accounts compromised? Here's how to catch the signs early and prevent phone porting happening to you.

A simple guide on how to prevent port-out scams

What Is a Phone Number Port-Out Scam?

Spyware, adware, and other types of malware used to affect only our computers. But now that almost everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, Android viruses are starting to spread too. Even though they are still not very common, there’s more than one way to end up with one on your phone.

If your Android device has been slow and laggy it might be a sign of malware. Learn how to identify them and remove malware from your device.

How to remove malware from Android smartphones

How to Remove a Virus from Android Devices

The cybersecurity world is full of acronyms. They might seem scary, but they shouldn’t be. Especially not HTTPS as it’s the opposite of scary - it protects your online traffic from snoopers. You may not be aware of it, but there’s no doubt you use it every day. Read on to find out more about HTTPS.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) transfers data packets between a browser and website servers. Check the article to find out why you need it.

What Is HTTPS and Why Do You Need It?

There’s what you’re supposed to do and what you actually do. You’re supposed to have strong and unique passwords for your every account. But it’s not easy to remember dozens of random strings of letters, symbols, and numbers. Maybe a weak password is enough as long as you use 2FA authentication as well?

Can you use weak passwords if they are reinforced with two-factor authentication? Pros and cons of this approach.

A strong password or a weak one + 2FA?

A Strong Password vs. 2FA with a Weak Password

Every day we entrust the internet with our most private information. Credit card details, bank transactions, private messages, addresses, and phone numbers all get sent over the internet. But what exactly is protecting us? The answer is TLS. In this post, we explain what TLS is, how it's used, and why you need it.

The intimidating truth about SSL websites. Can your information and sensitive data be stolen? Check out the article to find out.

TLS vs SSL: Myths, Facts and Differences

Learning Password Security Jargon: TLS

Email scams have existed since the inception of the email itself. We’ve all heard of the Nigerian prince who’s going to wire you one million dollars if you just make a small upfront payment of a few thousand. While falling for this scam would be ridiculous, millions of people lose their savings to email fraud every year.

Email address spoofing is one of the most common elements in online scams.
    It’s when someone sends you an email pretending to be someone else.


Email spoofing: How to avoid getting into a trap

Email Spoofing ABC: How to Avoid Getting into a Trap

Just a few years back, scanning your fingerprint to unlock a safe seemed possible in spy movies only. Now, using your biological data instead of a password has become quite mundane. From your phone to border control, biometric authentication is gaining popularity. But does it protect you against authorities? And what are the implications of your biometric data being stolen?

Using fingerprints or face recognition to unlock your online accounts is common nowadays. Is biometric authentication safe? Click the link to find out!