Keeping your digital footprint clean during quarantine
Right now the news is being flooded by articles highlighting the importance and efficacy of physical sanitation habits. Tips that you’ve undoubtedly heard an inundating number of times by now…
Guides
Why small businesses should buy VPN subscriptions for their employees
The internet is an essential part of business nowadays for businesses small and large. While large businesses often utilize site to site VPNs as part of their cybersecurity plan, the…
WireGuide: All about the WireGuard VPN protocol
WireGuard® is a relatively new VPN protocol when compared with the decades old OpenVPN and approaches software development with a different philosophy - do one thing simple and do it…
Private Internet Access users can now resolve internet names with the Handshake Naming System (HNS)
Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected Name Server from PIA’s Domain Name…
Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users – What Happened and How to Fix
What Happened? Today, many users were met with an error saying that their extensions were no longer valid and have been disabled by Firefox. This is because in mid-2018, Mozilla…
Identity and Card Theft – Shielding Yourself from the Unsafe Small Business
With a constant stream of news of big organizations that have neglected their security, we often forget that the most vulnerable organizations are the small and medium businesses that don't…
Impersonation and Identity Theft Risk on GitHub and How to Prevent It
In today's world, people who commit fraud, or scammers, frequently attempt to masquerade as another person or entity. Identity theft happens for a multitude of reasons, including but not limited…
Testing your web browser for cryptojacking
Cryptojacking or cryptocurrency mining is the covert use of your computer's Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing unit (GPU) to mine for cryptocurrency. With the rise of cryptocurrency, cryptojacking…
Buying Bitcoin? 4 Criteria For Choosing the Right Crypto Exchange
Your first foray into cryptocurrency will almost certainly take place on a cryptocurrency exchange - a place for buying and selling bitcoin. Travel back in time a few years, and…
How to permanently delete files in Windows with Cipher
When you delete a file in Windows, all it really does, is delete an entry in the master file table that tells the computer where the actual file is stored. …