What is a social engineering attack?

In social engineering attacks, victims are manipulated into handing over sensitive information that can be used for malicious purposes. What…

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the…

Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was…

A data breach involves the release of sensitive information. Many types of online attacks have a primary goal of causing…

A secure email gateway (SEG) is an email security product that uses signature analysis and machine learning to identify and block malicious…

A cross-sites scripting attack tricks a web browser into running malicious code. Cross-site scripting (XSS) is an exploit where the…

What is a brute force attack? A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to decode sensitive data. The…

Smishing meaning and definition Smishing is a phishing cybersecurity attack carried out over mobile text messaging, also known as SMS…

A new ransomware family dubbed ‘HavanaCrypt’ disguises itself as a Google software update app, using a Microsoft web hosting service…

Social media scams are just one of the many ways cybercriminals are taking advantage of people online these days. If…