Category: Hacking Threats

How Your Credentials Get Leaked and What Happens Next

Credential leaks have become alarmingly common in today’s digital landscape. What’s more concerning is that your passwords may already be circulating in private channels without your knowledge. According to recent statistics, approximately 15 billion compromised credentials are available on the public internet, with millions of new credentials being leaked daily. Even more alarming, malware targeting credential stores jumped from 8%...

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10 Most Common Web Security Vulnerabilities

*This article was originally written by Gergely Karman at TopTal. For all too many companies, it’s not until after a security breach has occurred that web security best practices become a priority. During my years working as an IT Security professional, I have seen time and time again how obscure the world of web development security issues can be to...

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How To Secure Your App From The Danger Of Hackers

“Hackers.” Even without the details, it’s a term that already has a sense of ominousness to it. But for mobile application developers, hackers pose a very significant threat, one that has the potential to completely decimate your business and delegitimize everything your team has worked so hard to build.

Application Security/Hacking Threats

Mobile Application Security: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Building a mobile application is a long and arduous process, we know. Between designing the concept and tools of your app and developing the code itself, there’s so much work that goes into such a project before a launch ever occurs. Yet, despite the fact that it ultimately results in adding even more lead time to your app, we cannot...

Hacking Threats/Mobile App Security

Poor Mobile App Security: Are You At Risk?

Have you ever worked on a high-priority project, only to discover late in the game that you’ve neglected one of the most fundamental elements in its long-term success? If so, then you certainly remember what a headache it was to rectify that oversight after the fact. That’s exactly what mobile app security is turning out to be for many developers:...

Application Security/Hacking Threats

Understanding Insecure Data Storage & How To Approach It

It is undeniable how dependent individuals, businesses, or any organized group for that matter, have become on mobile devices. Quite often the use of these devices includes the storage of sensitive data such as: passwords, credit card numbers, account records, or any other type of information that should be known only to the owner and the people they trust.

Hacking Threats/Insecure Data Storage

The Evolution of DDoS

DoS and DDoS attacks are all over the news and becoming more sophisticated by the year. In case you haven’t heard of them yet, DoS stands for ‘denial of service’. This type of attack usually consists of a massive amount of requests sent to a website to view its pages all at the same time. This overwhelms the system with...

Hacking Threats/Security Breach

10 Most Common Mobile Application Vulnerabilities

Ignoring problems won’t make them disappear. Yet that’s precisely the tack many mobile app developers take when looking at the vulnerabilities their apps face. It doesn’t matter if your app is small or large, whether or not you’re a security expert, or whether you’ve been hacked before. Sooner or later, someone will take advantage of mobile application vulnerabilities to attack...

Hacking Threats/Mobile App Security

3 Ways to Protect Your User Information From Hacking Attacks

Stealing user information is something that occurs frequently in the hacking scene. Hackers can leverage this sensitive data to gain access to other channels and create further damages. Yahoo experienced a major hacking attack that stole over 500 million users’ information two years ago. The Department of Justice announced today that the usages of stolen user information from Yahoo are...

Anti Hacking Software/Hacking Threats

6 Simple Steps to Make Yourself Hack-Proof

Clichés exist for a reason. Nowhere is this more true than in the admonition that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Sure, you could do damage control after a hack. But why would you want to? With criminals across the globe doggedly attempting to hack everything from free apps to government bodies, a hack is a...

Hacking Threats/Mobile App Hacking