Financial fraud costs merchants, consumers and banks billions every year. Artificial intelligence (AI) helps fight fraudulent charges and unauthorized banking access by being proactive. With machine learning and AI, suspicious charges are caught before a merchant loses product to fraud, the consumer is protected from monetary loss, and banks can automate account locks making detection much faster and more efficient. | Read More →

Disaster recovery plans require backups, and most IT administrators understand the importance of full data backups. What is often misunderstood is the role of transaction logs in disaster recovery. Logs allow administrators to perform a "Point in Time" recovery, and they are especially critical for busy servers that run hundreds or thousands of queries an hour. | Read More →

Thousands of computers comprise botnets, and just one successful DDoS attack can be devastating for a targeted organization. Workstations on a network are targets for attackers that can accumulate dozens of machines in one location including servers with high-end resources. To understand the way botnets work, it’s important to understand the way attackers build the perfect computer army. | Read More →

Unless you have a background in cyber security, understanding the way attackers break into a site based on poor authentication security is difficult. Even more difficult is setting up the right security standards on your website. Attackers use certain flags and observations to find vulnerabilities on your site. Use these authentication standards on your login page to protect from common security attacks. | Read More →

The latest attack on e-commerce stores introduces a simple JavaScript jQuery submission to a rogue server that collects credit card data. Magecart JavaScirpt code is injected into source code on an e-commerce store and silently steals credit card data from consumers. The latest attack affected NewEgg for about a month, and any consumer that used a credit card to buy a product from August 14 to September 18 should take the necessary steps to cancel the credit card account. | Read More →

Encrypting passwords in a database is a critical part of cyber security. Developers often misunderstand the importance of using one-way hashes rather than a two-way encryption algorithm to store sensitive data in a database. One-way hashes along with a salt can protect data from brute force attacks after a data breach. | Read More →