To pay or not to pay? The ransomware situation is not improving at all. It has definitely come to stay with us. The numbers increase at every moment and are really alarming. In recent years, Ransomware generated a gross annual income of $35 million per Ransomware per campaign. In the third quarter

What led you to found Twingate? When we started Twingate in 2019, we believed that the secure access problem (aka the “VPN problem”) was more than just a technology problem. It was a usability problem. For over 20 years, VPNs have been the default remote access solution for millions of companies,

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown the world into a new and unprecedented era of uncertainty, financial instability and chaos. Professionally, many of us have had to transition to a completely new virtual workplace. Students are struggling to complete their studies from home, a true

How has your company evolved from its inception to becoming a world leading antivirus? We started Avira over 30 years ago. Back then, our goal was to help friends and family with computer problems. The rise of new and unknown threats in the late 80's led us to servicing businesses and

I recently sat down with Taha Smily, an independent cybersecurity researcher to talk about the role he and other members of a new generation of ethical hackers play in keeping sites secure. Please tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in cybersecurity research. My name is

Today’s companies spend a lot of money on technology and devices to keep their information safe from bad actors that intend reputational or financial harm. But no matter how good the technology in place may be, it is imperative that companies set policies assuring that none of their practices

Controlling access to applications and an organization’s data stored within  is critical as data becomes more important and valuable as a resource. While many solutions exist to secure data, they often rely only on user roles and passwords to enable access. Niklas Jakobsson, CEO of Axiomatics,

With data security regulations becoming increasingly critical – especially with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – organizations and companies need solutions that can ensure compliance across their systems in order to function optimally.  Kishor Vaswani, CEO of ControlCase,

Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a leak in a database belonging to Polish online fashion retail company, BrandBQ. BrandBQ owns several retail and fashion brands operating in Eastern Europe. It appears the exposed database belonged to at least one of

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background before ShadeYou VPN. How did you get started as a VPN service? We are a young team of privacy enthusiasts with different backgrounds. Some of us are tech geeks, others have backgrounds in management and some of us are creative professionals.

vpnMentor can exclusively reveal that more than a quarter of Fortune 500 companies were hacked in the last decade. This peaked with a record number of hacks in 2018. Fortune 500 companies experienced 41 hacks in 2018 alone, more than double 2017’s record of 20. Fortune 500 is Fortune

The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered an unsecured AWS S3 bucket with over 5.5 million files and more than 343GB in size that remains unclaimed. Timeline of Discovery and Owner Reaction Sometimes the extent of a data breach and the owner of the

Here at vpnMentor, we commissioned a report to test the security and privacy of three wearables in the health and fitness sectors. Digitsole Warm Insoles, Modius Headband and Ivy Health Kids Thermometer were all found to be collecting and exposing personal information, putting their users’

For the past 30 plus years, the IACR (International Association for Cryptographic Research) has been at the cutting edge of cryptographic research. They run three conferences a year; Crypto (In the United States), EuroCrypt and AsiaCrypt. I spoke with Orr Dunkelman, General Chair for EuroCrypt,

Tresorit offers a secure cloud service that allows individuals and businesses to store, sync, and share their files. End-to-end encryption and zero-knowledge service ensure that your confidential documents remain private. Tresorit’s cloud-based solution lets you upload your files and share them

It’s been nearly 2 years since the Council of the European Union, European Parliament and the European Union passed the privacy legislation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Beginning on May 25th, 2018 any company that hasn’t updated their privacy policy during the two-year

The primary aim of using any VPN service is data security. But how can you be sure that your VPN is actually protecting you? There are several steps involved while setting up a VPN which leaves the possibility of errors that can leak your data and expose your IP address even if you are connected to

A world-respected security expert, Steven Bellovin's Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year's Hackers tackles the problem of cyber security head-on. Many people believe they're secure if they follow the same protocol from the year before, but with technology changing all the time, it's not

When Russia blocked the popular messaging app Telegram on April 16th, internet search queries for the term “vpn” surged dramatically, increasing by more than 230%. VPNs have also seen a spike in sales, with top VPN providers reporting a threefold increase in conversion rates. This shows that

What makes the SecBI solution unique? The SecBI solution is about advanced detection. It helps organizations to detect and mitigate the most complex and hidden threats that are out there. SecBI provides full-scope incident detection, compiling all the affected users, domains, devices and servers

The latest cyber onslaught, known as Petya, emerged nearly two days ago on June 27. Identified as a ransomware attack, it encrypts the appropriated data until a ransom in BitCoin is remitted. Petya has successfully breached thousands of targets across nations such as Ukraine, Russia, India, and the