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Here’s how to check your phone for Pegasus spyware using Amnesty’s tool

The Verge

Amnesty International — part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO’s government-grade spyware, Pegasus — has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected. Using the tool involves backing up your phone to a separate computer and running a check on that backup.

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How Can Educational Institutions Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats in Education?

Kitaboo

Here are some common cybersecurity threats plaguing educational institutions in 2022: Data Breaches. Educational institutions hold a significant amount of sensitive data regarding students, teachers, staff, and parents. Access to these data without authorization is called a data breach. Backup Your Data.

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Why Malware Prevention Should Be A Priority This Year

Galido

Types of malware include spyware, viruses, worms, and Trojans as well as more recently a new way of stealing money called, Ransomware. Regular backup to minimize data loss, such as icloud or google drive. These backups will ensure no matter what happens that your data is safe when preventing from a threat.

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Top 10 Malware Strains of 2021

SecureWorld News

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. Agent Tesla Agent Tesla can steal data from mail clients, web browsers, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. It can capture screenshots, videos, and Windows clipboard data.

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WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart on a rocky year for the app

The Verge

A few days later, the company announced the introduction of a way to let you encrypt a backup of your WhatsApp messages, preventing anyone who doesn’t have your encryption key (or, alternatively, a password that you set) from reading the contents of any of your messages. ( Another area we’ve been looking at for a while is backups.

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7 IT Security Risks for Small Businesses

Galido

Or do you take security for a granted just because you don’t have a huge volume of data? Some of the infamous types of malware are viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, adware and spyware. Malware can steal information; damage data and affect your computer performance. But, here is a wakeup call for all you…. What to do?

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Understanding and Recognizing Tech Abuse

SecureWorld News

We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Use your mobile data unless you trust that the wireless connection is secure.

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