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Back-to-Basics: Properly Configured Firewalls

PCI perspectives

As small and medium businesses begin to re-open following the pandemic, it’s important to do so securely in order to protect customer’s payment card data. Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. Today’s blog focuses on properly configuring firewalls.

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time to Secure Your eCommerce Website

SiteLock

The holiday season is a busy time for online retailers and other ecommerce websites. As you prepare for the uptick in traffic, don’t let an oversight make you vulnerable to a breach. Instead, get ahead securing your ecommerce website by knowing what to expect. Secure Your eCommerce Website. Anticipate an Attack.

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Cybercriminals are Oversharing with Social Media Data Breaches

SiteLock

It’s been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. Peace stole data from over 360 million Myspace accounts. 29 milliseconds to crack them.

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The OWASP Top 10: Sensitive Data Exposure

SiteLock

Sensitive data exposure is an all too common cyberthreat that endangers businesses and their customers, as well as websites and their visitors. billion records containing personal data were compromised as a result of data breaches. Sensitive data exposure can be financially devastating to a website. In 2016, 4.8

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SiteLock’s Top Five Cybersecurity Predictions For 2020

SiteLock

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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The Three Tenets of Zero Trust Security

SecureWorld News

Sure, there were plenty of sources of threats and lots of risks, such as ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber events. Back then, much of the cybersecurity discussion might have been around strengthening passwords, updating anti-virus software, and maybe deploying the latest firewalls to protect the enterprise perimeter.

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Google Should Not Be Your Alarm System: Preventing Blacklisted Websites

SiteLock

Equally as damaging, for lack of inexpensive proactive security measures, you could be facing a business-ending data breach event. Your reputation has had better days and if you’re in eCommerce, your sales probably have as well. Web application firewalls. Google can’t evaluate every page of every website on the internet.