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Meanwhile, Cybercrime Magazine estimates that cybercrime will cost $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015, demonstrating the industry’s urgency and speed of expansion. One concerning aspect of the shortfall is that it might be significantly narrowed if one part of the population – women — were proportionately represented in the business. According to a research study conducted by Frost and Sullivan in 2013, women made up only 11% of the global cybersecurity workforce....

It’s not difficult to get started with Steam, especially for novices. All you need is a gaming-capable PC or Mac to start utilising Steam for your desktop or laptop gaming. You’ll also need to go to the Steam shop and buy the games you wish to play. This is how to get started with Steam. Steam Setup & Installation The first step toward using this gaming platform is to create a Steam account....

An often-overlooked tooltip feature in Minecraft displays additional information about items in the game. The tooltips display individual IDs for each item, as well as additional vital information such as remaining tool, weapon, and armour durability, among other things. Advanced Tooltips: How to Enable Them In Minecraft, pressing F3+H at the same time is the quickest way to enable Advanced Tooltips. On the screen, you’ll see the following message: You’ll know the command worked when you see this....

BleepingComputer reported in April and June of this year that malvertising was targeting German and French users with technological support, phishing pages and counterfeit sweepstakes. The striking fact is that ads appear in Microsoft free games and Windows 10 apps to get the app out of hand and run unwanted sites on a default user’s browser. This attack was unusual. Malvertising in Microsoft Jigsaw The advertising security company Confiant has found an advertiser based in Hong Kong who created corporate identities for partnerships using DSPs (demand side platforms), a report shared with BleepingComputer....

DigiTimes recently reported that Apple will soon be presenting a health monitoring feature in the brand-new AirPods. Later this feature can be used to monitor heart rate to see oxygen levels in the blood. In addition, Apple is also rumoured to be asking one of the ASE Technology companies to start developing ambient light sensors that will soon be used in the new AirPods. But it seems that the use of these sensors makes Apple’s new AirPods have a larger size than the current AirPods....

But your browsing experience on your smartphone is determined by the type of mobile web browser you used while surfing the net so in this article, you will get to know the best web browsers for Android phones. Because of the huge popularity of Android smartphones all over the world, a lot of app developers has developed so many web browsers as can be seen on Google Play Store. But most of these browsers are just not good enough while some are top notch and brings PC experience on your Android phone....

We have Google Play Store alternatives where you can download Android apps and games without using the official Android app store, the same goes for iOS devices, and a store like AppValley is one of them. While AppValley is good, there are other alternatives for it, and in today’s article on NaijaKnowHow, you’ll get to know a list of the best AppValley alternatives for iOS devices like iPhone and iPad....

The game of numbers is famously social, based around communicating with neighbours, meeting friends for a game and chatting away as the bingo caller gets busy calling the numbers and whipping the crowd up. The online world is often felt to boast more of the fun elements of bingo, but a lot less of the community vibe. With the advent of bingo chat games, there have been steps to combat that....

We all know the fragile part of any smartphone is the screen, and these series of iPhone 11 that was just released a few days ago, they have a flat-screen and it’s more fragile compared to the ones on other iPhones. Before the unveiling of the iPhone 11 series, there have been developments on the screen protectors from different companies. Now with the phone available in the market, here are some of the best screen protectors you to buy for them....

Football games are one of the most popular and most played games in the world, this category of games has spanned across different platforms and on Android, we’ve seen some of the best football games for Android, likewise on PSP, you can see some real football games for PSP as well. But when it comes it playing Football on PC, there are football games for PC as well but most times, they’re mostly played with an internet connection and it’s an optional decision though....

When it comes to making money from blogging in Nigeria, there are different ways it can be achieved and one of them is through push notification Ad networks that can be integrated into websites. In today’s article on NaijaKnowHow, you’ll get to know a list of the best push ads networks out there, and these networks are very good for running campaigns and also making money with a large website audience....

When it comes to legit online hustle as a Nigerian, there are different ways you can make money online and these ways are circled around apps, websites and sometimes services you offer to people online. You can make money online via the best apps to make money online on Android and iOS, but if you’re looking for websites to make money online as a Nigerian, then you’ve come to the right place....

That said, remote work can cause vulnerabilities for company data. Remote company owners must ensure the security of their clients and company information. Much like a burglary, a cybersecurity threat can completely devastate a company. Here is your guide to prioritizing cybersecurity as a remote-first business. Don’t forget physical security. When working remotely, it’s easy to overlook physical security. Remote companies still require physical items and information, and it would be best if you securely stored paperwork and company devices....

Tracked as CVE-2020-10713 and dubbed BootHole, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.2 and Eclypsium claims it affects all operating systems that use GRUB2 with Safe Boot, a mechanism designed to protect the boot process from attacks. In fact, the firm says the bug affects machines that use Secure Boot even though they don’t use GRUB2. “Fast all signed versions of GRUB2 are vulnerable, meaning that virtually every Linux distribution is affected,” explained Eclypsium in her paper....

This massive task has been assigned to an “Internet Security Information Leadership Group,” according to a report published by the Canadian military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence. But neither the Chinese military nor any other Chinese government media outlet is officially released. Instead, they would prefer to go with a custom operating system with “Security through obscurity,” a security engineering approach on the secrecy of design or implementation as the primary goal of providing security for a system or system component....

The malware authors use a collection of vulnerabilities that were made public on March 3, the same day Microsoft released patches for them. Before the public release, the vulnerabilities had been targeted, and interest in them grew quickly. CISA issued a warning on the exploitation of the Exchange vulnerabilities on March 3, and it updated the alert this week to provide Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) with details on additional attacks....

Before now, people who wanted to access the Clubhouse had to get an invitation from someone else or wait through the waitlist system, now everyone who downloads the application can access the Clubhouse directly. “After 16 never-boring months of building, we’re thrilled to share that Clubhouse is now out of beta, open to everyone, and ready to begin the next chapter!” wrote Clubhouse’s official Twitter account. ✅ Wonderful people ✅ Fascinating conversations ✅ Backchannel❌ > ✅ Easy to join After 16 never-boring months of building, we’re thrilled to share that Clubhouse is now out of beta, open to everyone, and ready to begin the next chapter!...

A ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Company forced the company to shut down all pipeline operations on Friday. The company said Sunday evening that it was working on a proposal to restart the system, but that some smaller lateral lines between terminals and distribution points were now operational. As of Sunday night, Colonial’s mainlines (Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4) were still down. “We are working to restore service to other laterals and will put our whole system back online only when we are certain that it is safe to do so and in full compliance with all federal regulations,” the company said in a statement....

The coronavirus pandemic was related to a 238 per cent rise in cyber attacks on banks, new research says. VMware Carbon Black published the third edition of the Modern Bank Heists report on Thursday, which says that financial organizations experienced a major upturn in cyber-attack attempts between February and April of this year — the same months that COVID-19 started to spread rapidly across the globe. Research by the cybersecurity company, which provides feedback from 25 CIOS at major financial institutions, adds that during the past 12 months, 80 percent of the companies surveyed have encountered further cyber-attacks, an rise of 13 percent year over year....

Since at least 2004, the party is often referred to as APT28, Sednit, Fancy Bear and Strontium, and claimed to be funded by the Russian GRU Intelligence Service. The adversary is alleged to have coordinated assaults on Russia, NATO, and the DNC in the run-up to the 2016 vote in the United States. Throughout years, Pawn Storm focused on phishing to obtain exposure to networks of interest. Still, Trend Micro noticed a change in strategies, methods, and procedures (TTP) in May 2019, when the company began utilizing compromised high-profile email addresses to deliver password phishing emails....