Category: Web Security

How to stay safe online – top safety tips for kids using the Internet or social media

How to stay safe online – top safety tips for kids using the Internet or social media by YJO-ANNE ROWNEYMARK WEINSTEIN.  Available from <http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/how-stay-safe-online-top-10754108> [July 07, 2017] Photo: flickr.com/Lucélia Ribeiro

Being a parent is a minefield. Protecting your child isn’t exactly easy and everyone knows as soon as the Internet came on the scene there’s even more to think about.

As with anything the online world has a darker side, that isn’t to say you need to lock up all technology right now and stop your children being exposed to it.

We do everything we can to teach our children how to stay safe in the real world. But what about the digital one?

The Internet is part of our lives and it’s good for kids to learn the dos and don’ts early on.

Technology has changed the way we interact and that means teaching some serious lessons to our children about online behavior and safety.

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Top 15 tips to improve cyber security

Top 15 tips to improve cyber security.  Available from <https://www.telappliant.com/blog/improve-cyber-security/> [June 15, 2017]

SMEs have to juggle a huge number of tasks to stay profitable and grow. Balance the books, nurture staff, generate new business and maintain cyber security.

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Here’s how these 8 easy tips helps you to secure your website

Here’s how these 8 easy tips helps you to secure your website by .  Available from<http://thetechnews.com/2017/06/10/8-easy-tips-to-secure-your-website/> [June 10, 2017]

Imagine you have a safe box and you put all your life’s savings inside that box and left it on the front porch unguarded.

Is it really safe in the safe box?

Absolutely not!

Anyone passing by would be able to pry it open and take all your hard-earned money. This is comparable to creating a website. Think of the website as your savings- all your hard work, creativity, thoughts and money went on this website which you spent hours developing.

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How To Defend Your Business Against A Cyber Attack

How To Defend Your Business Against A Cyber Attack by Rebecca James.  Available from <http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/06/defend-business-cyber-attack/> [on

Along with the increase in cyber security technologies, the risk of cyber attack around the globe is becoming an intense concern for every internet user. However, the cyber attackers are massively targeting businesses and organizations so as to gain more benefit from their sensitive data.

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How to protect yourself from ransomware attacks

How to protect yourself from ransomware attacks by By Brian X. Chen.  Available from <http://www.bendbulletin.com/sciencetech/5315691-151/how-to-protect-yourself-from-ransomware-attacks> [Published May 24, 2017 at 12:02AM]

A decade-old form of malicious software known as ransomware has been making headlines after cybercriminals hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.

Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people’s data and threatening to destroy it if a ransom is not paid. The global cyberattack has affected 200,000 Windows computers in more than 150 countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Britain.

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