All data is from official government sources, such as official reports of national Data Protection Authorities. Where are the Marriott and British Airways fines? The Marriott and British Airways cases are not final yet and the fines are just proposals. Other GDPR fines trackers incorrectly report those as final. *Because not all fines are made […]
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Miguel Gomez
12 January 2020Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was created in mid-April 2016, the EU had hopes of creating an internet where the privacy of its users is more valued by making businesses implement an opt-in framework for their tracking cookies. In addition to establishing these goals, the GDPR has also inspired things like the California […]
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Miguel Gomez
23 December 2019Although VPNs have long been associated with private and secure browsing, those who have a keen interest in this particular subject may also have come across the concept of onion routing, albeit perhaps not with that exact name. Also known as Tor, onion routing (OR) has been a way to navigate the web in virtual […]
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Miguel Gomez
30 November 2019Saying that air gapping a system is anything but the most secure and invulnerable way to protect data is bound to burst some bubbles. After all, this is the gospel truth among IT professionals who live in a world of clean, sanitized, statistics that don’t always account for how dirty the real world can be. […]
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Joe Robinson
8 November 2019All data is from official government sources, such as official reports of national Data Protection Authorities. Where are the Marriott and British Airways fines? The Marriott and British Airways cases are not final yet and the fines are just proposals. Other GDPR fines trackers incorrectly report those as final. *Because not all fines are made […]
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Howard Eldon
23 October 2019The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the Internet. When people use the web, they don’t type in the IP address of the website that they want to visit. Instead, they use a domain name, like www.google.com. The job of DNS is to convert this domain name into an IP address that […]
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Joe Robinson
14 October 2019There have been almost 500 documented geopolitical cyber attacks around the world since 2009. Making cyberwarfare a major technological threat to nations and their citizens. In this article, we hope to break down some of the numbers and gain insight into the nature of these attacks, where they originate from, and who they’re targeting. Key […]
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Read guideData is one of the most valuable commodities in the world right now.
Companies such as Facebook and Google track you in order to sell highly personalized advertising space to the highest bidder. They know who your friends are, what you’re interested in, how likely you are to watch a certain video, your political leanings, and even which websites you visit.
Governments watch your every move by passing laws to force ISPs to provide information on every single character you type into a search engine, and every webpage you visit. They know your precise location at any time through triangulation of your mobile phone and can follow you using huge networks of CCTV cameras.
They even constantly try to undermine the very safety that protects us all from having our data wide visible to anyone who looks – strong encryption.
Hackers and cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for vulnerable systems used by companies to store users data use sophisticated social engineering attacks to trick people into handing their data over willingly.
Major data breaches happen at an alarming rate and continue to increase in frequency. A US computer is targetted in a hacking attempt every 25 seconds, and the cost of cybercrime on the global economy is set to reach $6 Trillion in 2021.
When your data falls into the wrong hands the consequences can be profound. Ranging from having to change your passwords, having your personal emails published, your website memberships becoming public knowledge, all the way up to being denied credit in the future because someone has used your name to take out a loan – this really happens.
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