During these challenging times, when everyone is working, studying, and streaming from home, securing the home network is more important than ever. I’m co-producing a webinar about this, where you can learn more about the growing threat landscape and our HomeSecure solution. If you can join the live webinar, we’ll be on-hand to address…
As the online equivalent to Black Friday, Cyber Monday is among the biggest online shopping days of the year. Cyber Monday, along with Black Friday, heralds the beginning of the online holiday shopping season. According to Adobe Analytics, 2018 Cyber Monday sales amounted to a staggering all-time record of $7.87 billion. This year, the prediction…
“Ooops, your files have been encrypted!” That’s the dreaded message that greeted people hit with the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. Hundreds of thousands of computers were infected and many people lost their computer files, money, and time, and suffered immeasurable aggravation and embarrassment. It’s been a couple of years since then and, experts agree, ransomware is…
MWC went by so fast that you may have missed some of the highlights. Luckily, we’ve compiled the following takeaways from the Barcelona conference. With apologies to Don Adams, it really is time to Get Smart! From Smart Cities and Smart Homes, to Smart Mobility and Smart Wellness, you might think that we’ve moved out…
Anyone with millennial-aged children at home will find it hard to remember them without their faces glued to their mobile phones. It seems that their entire universe has been shrunk into a tiny metallic and glass panel, a bit like the Big Bang in reverse. For those young adults, whose birth years begin with the…
Big CSP Security as a Service Opportunity with 5G The migration of cellular telecommunications from 4G networks to 5G provides many opportunities for mobile operators. However, with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and dynamic network slicing capabilities, 5G is not just another bigger, better, faster network than 4G. It is a completely new concept in network…
Home Router…, Trojan Horse? The world of cybersecurity is full of stories of technology secretly encroaching on our privacy. The most common attack comes from malware that we enable hackers to store on our computers or mobile devices. Most of us are familiar with these “Trojan horse” viruses that can open up our devices to…
Top 12 Allot Blogs of 2018 With 2018 behind us, and 2019 picking up momentum, we thought you might be interested to see a list of the Top 12 Allot Blogs of 2018. We hope that you can find the time to read through this cyber compendium—you never know… you might find one you missed!…
Don’t let cybercriminals score. Beat their game-plan. Cybercriminals typically take advantage of the huge public interest in major international events. The FIFA World Cup 2018 that begins shortly in Russia is no exception and cybercriminals have been busy exploiting the excitement about the world’s biggest sporting event. The numbers are staggering. FIFA estimated that 715.1…
Danger: VPNFilter Malware: What is it and how is network-based security best placed to thwart it? What’s this latest threat? A new malware threat has emerged that poses such a serious potential threat to data security that the FBI has advised all router users to reboot their devices. The malware, called VPNFilter, can spy…