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Data Privacy Glossary (A-Z)

When it comes to protecting your sensitive personal data, or your organization’s data, the different terminology and jargon can often be an issue. This is why we’ve compiled this A-Z data privacy glossary s in the hopes that it might help you improve your data security. A Access Control – The process of restricting access to […]

November 30, 2023

Can You Be Tracked if You Use a VPN? Here’s how to Find out Who is Ignoring Your Privacy Online!

The idea of a Virtual Network Provider (VPN) is to protect your online privacy and secure your sensitive information. But will a VPN service completely keep your browsing activities from being monitored? Can VPN be tracked? It depends on the VPN service itself and your online behavior. Who can Track You Online? So how exactly […]

Decrease the Chances of Your Business Getting Hacked by Increasing Email Security Awareness of Your Employees

Did you know that cybercrime costs $6 trillion per year and that an average business loses $4.24 million on average annually due to cyber attacks? For any business, this is a huge amount, but especially for a small business that’s only starting and it could mean the end of it. The bad news is that cybercrime is not going […]

Dos and Don’ts of Data Protection for Your Company

According to a survey of over 1,100 professionals across the world, conducted in 2020 by Experian, despite spending more money and time each year on cyber security, companies are also growing more and more worried about data breaches and cyber-attacks. The global cost of a data breach on average was $3.83 million for 2020. This was […]

Understanding the Fileless Malware Attacks Surge and how to Protect Against Them

Cyber-criminals and other threat actors will seek (and often find) ways to install malicious files on your computer. However, there is a type of malware attack that doesn’t need to do that. The fileless malware attack. What fileless malware does instead is hide in your system and piggyback on otherwise legitimate processes and programs running in your […]

What is Data Collection?

For a company, few things are as valuable as the data it collects from its customers. Data collection enables companies to better understand their customer’s needs, wants and desires. Many companies use data management tools like AtroPIM to efficiently organize and analyze the information collected through various methods. So how do companies collect data? In […]

What are Cookies on My Computer?

While browsing the Internet and visiting websites, you probably encountered a message, usually somewhere at the bottom of the screen, saying: “This website uses cookies to enable essential functionality and to provide Google analytics and a non-personalized advertising. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies. For more information on […]

How to Set up Mail Forwarding

Is your inbox so full of messages that you can’t “tell heads from tails”? One thing that can help clear the clutter and make your email a bit easier to use is to set up a forwarding email address. In this article, we’ll show you how what is mail forwarding and why you might need […]

What Ransomware Negotiation Really Looks Like?

Every year, ransomware attacks cost businesses over $133,000 on average. In addition to this, businesses also lose $8,500/hour as a result of the downtime that the ransomware causes. But should you be paying off threat actors what they ask to get your stolen data back or can you reduce ransomware payments to a more “acceptable” level? […]

What does BCC Mean in Email and is Blind Carbon Copy Safe?

Did you know that when sending out an email to multiple recipients, you have three options to choose from: Of these three, you are probably the most familiar with the “To” option. If you leave this field empty, your email message would have nowhere to go and would just sit in your drafts. However, when […]

Can Opening an Email Get You Hacked?

Did you know that 47.3% of all email is spam, which is around 15 billion spam email messages sent every day? Today it’s email security 101 not to download an email attachment or click on a malicious link in a spam message as this can likely lead to malware infection, but what about simply opening a […]

How to Avoid Social Engineering Attacks?

When we talk about data security, the emphasis is usually on the more technical dangers such as viruses and malicious software. However, while ensuring that your sensitive data is protected with the latest anti-virus software, there is another weakness that attackers can attempt to exploit – humans. In this article, we’ll focus on protecting your […]

Video Conferencing Security Best Practices and Apps

The Covid 2019 pandemic has completely changed the way many businesses work. Nowhere is this better seen than in the meteoric rise of video conferencing. Just in the first two months of the start of the Covid 2019 pandemic, the video conferencing market went up 500%. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the market was […]

What are the Pros and Cons of Biometric Authentication Technology?

As data breaches happen with more regularity each year and companies lose more money as a result it is becoming clear that protecting your sensitive data with only a password is no longer sufficient. One of the biggest problems when it comes to the authentication process is determining if the person is really who they […]

Best Practices and Tips for Digital Security and Privacy for Journalists

As a journalist, your mission is to inform citizens about their society, government, and other things so they can make the best decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, what you’ll soon find out (if you haven’t already) is that those in power usually don’t want you to do that and the more you dig for sensitive information, […]

Pros and Cons of Password Managers (Should You Use a Password Manager?)

How many times did you try to log in to an online account only for your brain to go blank when you needed to fill out the password? An average person in 2020 had 100 passwords, according to a study done by a password manager company NordPass so it’s no wonder why we keep forgetting our passwords […]

How to Set Up (and Use) Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?

When it comes to sending secure and encrypted messages, very few protocols come even close to Pretty Good Privacy or PGP encryption. While PGP encrypt has been around since the 1990s, its use never spread much beyond the privacy-conscious and technically-savvy. For example, a typical Gmail user might not have even heard of PGP software, let alone […]

Email Encryption Market Forecast (2021-2027)

As the need to protect sensitive data increases, so too does the email encryption market grows. We are looking at the global email encryption market by component, by organization size, by development mode, by end user, by regional outlook, industry analysis report and forecast, 2021-2027 by Research and Markets. Note that this is only an overview […]

Analyzing the Types of Email Services Used in BEC (Business Email Compromise)

In 2020, the FBI’s IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) got 19,369 BEC (Business Email Compromise complaints, for an adjusted loss of $1.8 billion. BEC scams are not a new thing and they’ve been around for a while, but they are getting more sophisticated as scammers invent new ways to fraud people via email. We can see this, […]

Microsoft Edge and OneDrive Syncing Without Warning or Consent

When Google Chrome introduced Sync in 2012, many users saw this as a helpful feature since they could now have their documents available on all their devices at the same time. Soon after, more browsers, including Firefox, Edge, Opera, followed, introducing browser syncing to their users as well. However, before you give your browser and […]