What Is Identity Theft? And How To Protect Yourself
Identity theft is when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission. Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime around the globe for the very obvious reason that most of us have made our most valuable personal information — name, address, social security number,…
Critical Vulnerability in File Manager Plugin Affecting Millions WordPress Websites
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team is seeing a dramatic increase in attacks targeting the recent 0-day in the WordPress File Manager plugin. This plugin is installed on over 700,000 WordPress websites, and we estimate that 37.4% or 261,800 websites are still running vulnerable versions of this plugin at…
How to Protect Your Child’s Privacy During Remote Learning
With the pandemic still in full swing, Millions of students will attend school online this fall because of the coronavirus. Classes are held at home, with the parent or guardian acting as teacher, counselor, and yes, even IT expert to their kids. Nowadays, this setup…
How To Secure Your Email Account
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages (“mail”) between people using electronic devices. Email entered limited use in the 1960s, but users could only send to users of the same computer, and some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both…
Norwegian Parliament Discloses Cyber-Attack On Internal Email System
The Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) said on Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyber-attack that targeted its internal email system. Attackers have compromised a limited number of email accounts of Norwegian Parliament (Storting) representatives and employees according to Storting’s managing director Marianne Andreassen. In a press…
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