Make Yourself Invisible to Hackers: the Human Firewall

Modern medicine is overwhelmingly reactive rather than proactive. How expensive that model is! If everyone only got sick and then sought medical assistance, we could not afford the bill. The reasoning here is similar to why you change the oil in your car rather than wait to fix a blown engine. This is also why we try to vaccinate or inoculate against as many diseases as possible. Everyone knows the motto: “Prevention is better than cure.”

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Valentine’s Day: All Your Need is Love. And Protection

Don’t you love Valentine’s Day? So do most hackers! February 14 is just around the corner. If you are shocked by this revelation, you are a prime target for Valentine’s Day spam and phishing attacks as hackers hope to catch you with your guard down for this day of expressing how much you care for your loved ones.

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ZoneAlarm Proud to Be Part of Check Point’s Growth

As Check Point’s consumer brand, ZoneAlarm is proud to play a pivotal role within the outstanding growth of its parent company, which provides industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Gil Shwed, co-founder and CEO of Check Point, was interviewed by the Forbes magazine in December. The opening paragraph summarizes the interview’s focus: growth.

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Warning Signs of Identity Theft

Wouldn’t you freak out if you checked your bank account and saw a $0 balance? Identity theft isn’t too rare of an occurrence these days, yet we often fall into the trap of thinking that it’ll always happen to “someone else”. Unfortunately, we are all somebody else’s “someone else”, which means identity theft can happen to you.

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Ransomware: Attack Trends, Prevention, and Response

On the surface, cyberattacks to unprotected home users may not appear to be lucrative for hackers, especially if you are only looking at a single instance. Attackers targeting individuals tend to keep their ransom relatively low (if compared to companies,) hoping to entice victims to pay up quickly, rather than trying to thwart the attack.

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