Ransomware questions and answers
E-mail is one of the main means by which the ransomware virus penetrates computers. How can I identify a suspicious email? A virus-carrying email will contain a legitimate-looking invoice or purchase receipt. The only way to distinguish that it is not a legitimate email is by carefully examining the email address from which the message was sent. The address will not be the same as […]
Tips for protecting your computer from hackers
In this way, you will significantly reduce the chance of a hacker attack on your computer. None of us wants to fall victim to a hacker attack on our personal computer. Such an attack can have many consequences, from disabling the computer's function, through rummaging through photos and personal documents, to stealing passwords that lead to really sensitive information, such as: entering the private email, the personal account on social networks and the bank account details [...]
Is your computer really secure?
Is your computer really secure? Identity theft is a problem that has grown significantly in recent years. Today we can all take examples even from the credit card companies and various banks, which have to deal with identity forgers on a daily basis in order to prevent theft of funds. What we really need to remember, is that if large companies are exposed to different hacker hacks, then how […]
Understand the ransomware virus
Ransomware is the biggest information security threat today, extorting billions of dollars from individuals and businesses of all sizes. In this interview, Alon Zucker, an information security expert and CEO of SOPHTIX will provide tools to better understand the threat and how to deal with it. The first interview in the series. Alon Zucker is an information security expert and CEO of SOPHTIX, which focuses on cyber defense - […]
Leave the squeezing for the fruits
Like many others, I also watched the news this week that extensively covered the "Moroccan sting" - as the Israeli police called it; The wave of extortion attacks on Instagram, which has so far affected a large number of Israelis who have fallen victim to extortion of thousands of shekels, under the threat that sexual videos in which they participated - will be published in various places. The method is simple, but we still haven't done enough [...]
