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Cybersecurity Basics: Everything You Should Know

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Imagine that all of a sudden, you cannot log in to your favorite online shop. Moreover, someone makes some strange comments on your behalf and orders some purchases. Remember the one time you clicked on a link in the comment section of a website to check that jacket someone recommended? It seems you encountered a case of cross-site scripting (or XSS). Read below why it is dangerous and why it is so easy to fall victim to it.

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Some attacks are more difficult to trace than others. Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of them. Learn why it’s dangerous and why it’s easy to fall for it.

What Is Cross Site Scripting (XSS)?

Forgetting your password might seem like a minor inconvenience, but being locked out of your computer can cause real problems. If your machine is password-protected, make sure to back up your login information. A password reset disk is a great way to do that.

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A password reset disk is a great way to keep your Windows password safe. Here’s how to create a password reset disk and simple steps for using it.

How to create a password reset disk

How to Create a Password Reset Disk

Disrupting traffic on a server can have major consequences. With a DDoS attack, cybercriminals force websites offline and make them inaccessible. By sending artificially inflated traffic, they may block apps and even shut down major news sites. So how does a DDoS attack work, and can it be prevented?

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A DDoS attack or DoS attack involves making a server or website inaccessible to its intended users - a denial of service, hence the name. What is a DDoS attack?

What is a DDos attack

What Is a DDoS Attack?

Companies hacked through a single email. Incredible sums of money stolen or paid in ransom. All because an employee clicked on a malicious link. Unfortunately, phishing attacks affect numerous businesses every year. They are difficult to prevent, but getting to know each type of phishing will help you spot it before it’s too late. So, let’s take a look at spear phishing.

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Spear phishing is a tailored phishing attack aimed at a specific person. Learn how it works and what you can do to stop it.

What is Spear Phishing?

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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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