Since 2005, the big 5 tech companies have spent over half a billion dollars ($582 million) lobbying Congress. Last year alone, they spent $81.4 million, with Google the largest contributor at $26.1 million. But how are they spending all that money? vpnMentor recently analysed all of the

Below is the intro and  first chapter of Become The Ultimate Hacker – Computer Virus, Cracking, Malware, IT Security A complete Kindle or paperback version can be purchased on Amazon. Introduction ‘Hacking’ is a word, which the world thinks illegitimate. However, that is not true. A person who

In June 2018 the independent security institute, AV-Test, released an evaluation of twelve VPNs. The following VPNs were studied: Hotspot Shield Elite, Avast SecureLine, Avira Phantom VPN Pro, Cisco VPN, ExpressVPN, F-Secure FREEDOME VPN, VPN Unlimited, Private Internet Access, NordVPN, Pulse

Please describe the background behind founding XM Cyber. XM Cyber was established in 2016 by former head of the Israeli Mossad and senior executive in the IDF, Mr. Tamir Pardo. Boaz Gorodinsky, our CTO and myself, Noam Erez, both came from executive positions in the IDF. Many companies have

At the Blackhat Asia Conference in early April 2016, researchers from Northeastern University and Boston University revealed nine of the top ten Firefox extensions are vulnerable to reuse attacks. Unfortunately, this includes a few of the most popular security extensions available in the Add-on

Regular readers of our blog know that there is no such thing as a one-time censorship event. Governments across the globe are constantly looking for new ways to attack online freedom (as well as other freedoms) and make ‘big businesses’ happier using access to our information as the bait. At

What's unique about the Atera platform? In many senses, we are doing what Wix and Dapulse did in their industries. If you replace the product at the end of the process with our product, you'll get the same result- a simplified method of getting things done. In the past, in order to build a

What's inspired you to start Astaris? When I was freshly out of university, I was hired by an American .com agency that built websites in London. After the .com crash of 2000, the company closed down and disappeared from the UK. Together with a group of former company employees, we launched our

This week, Grateful Dead lyricist and digital rights activist, John Perry Barlow passed away. Although we mourn the loss of a great visionary, we will forever remember his lessons of free speech, personal growth, and marketing tactics. Here are five lessons we learned from the digital rights

05Looks like a load of mumbo jumbo? We’ll explain why creating a riddle of a password can protect you from all sorts of online predators. Before I began to investigate this subject more rigorously, I was quite baffled as to why anyone would want to hack into my online world. After all, I’m

Alcide is the lesser-known name of Hercules, the gatekeeper of Olympus. The Greek hero keeps a constant and watchful eye over Mount Olympus — from its base to its summit — in search of intruders. Inspired by our namesake Alcide is the gatekeeper to your cloud enterprise operations, where the crown

This report covers two vulnerabilities in cybersecurity provider Cyberoam’s firewall and VPN technology, affecting the "email quarantine system,” reachable without authentication. They were discovered by different researchers working independently. The first vulnerability was reported on in late

Why did you decide to write this book? IAPP requested that I write the book, because they liked my first book, which I wrote to help developers and IT professionals understand privacy implications when creating apps, services and websites. What new knowledge have you acquired while researching

What's inspired you to write this book? Motivation for writing the book came from the rapidly changing security and privacy environment in the early 2010s and how society grappled with the rise of cyber security threats. In many countries, including Australia, there was a general lack of debate on

After five years of research in application security and machine learning, supported by a continuous practice of application security testing, High-Tech Bridge developed a unique Application Security Testing (AST) Platform called ImmuniWeb®. This award-winning Platform provides companies,

What's Brought you to Establish Retruster? I come from a financial background, being a CPA. A few years back, while working in the financial department of an organization, I received an email from the CEO, instructing me to transfer money to a supplier. While it looked like a completely normal

What makes the Preempt solution unique? Most enterprises don’t have enough personnel for securing networks, they have so much data running and much of it is false positives, which takes up loads of time to analyze. Preempt is a Behavioral Firewall; it understands the behavior of every user in

Pattrick de Schutter is a typical serial entrepreneur. He founded Allmansland, one of the first web agencies in Belgium back in 1994; A couple of years later he launched IP Netvertising, the first ad-sales house in Belgium, which was later sold to RTL; In addition, he also took part in a number of

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background before starting a VPN service. How did you get started as a VPN service? Before I founded KeepSolid, I had three other attempts to start a business. Each of these attempts helped me to improve further and avoid some mistakes. We founded KeepSolid

What made you write this book? We decided to write this book because we realized that, despite a lot of publicity about identity thefts and common scams, many people are still vulnerable to such attacks. We felt that a lot of the available information on the topic was somewhat fragmented

What made you write this book? In writing this book I wanted to answer a fundamental question. What does it mean for an organization to be secure? And, how can they determine that they’ve achieved this? In twenty-five plus years in high tech, and sixteen in security, I observed that determining