As COVID-19 infection rates shift and countries reopen their borders for tourism, travel in some places has returned at an even higher rate than pre-pandemic. With expanding travel comes expanding cyber risks, it is as important as ever for those heading abroad this summer to practice cyber hygiene. Jonas Walker, a Security Strategist with Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs, offers his insight into how to stay safe and avoid attacks from threat actors while traveling in today's cyber world. Why is practicing cyber hygiene essential for travelers Cyber hygiene is like personal hygiene, its all about having a daily routine. That includes good practices to ensure that your environment stays clean, especially when traveling. When you travel, you typically carry a device, a computer or...
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In popular culture, hackers are often associated with bad guys. However, just as there are criminal hackers, there exist ethical hackers who help organizations find security vulnerabilities. According to data acquired by Atlas VPN, ethical hackers earned $44,754,742 million collectively from bug bounties in the last 12 months. The numbers are based on HackerOne’s 4th Annual Hacker-Powered Security Report, which looks at data from May 2019 up to April 2020. Companies that have bug bounty programs listed there include such big names as Google, PayPal, AT&T, Costa Coffee, Line Corporation, and many more. Photo for representation purpose only. Over the last year, hackers reported 60,000 valid vulnerabilities and collected $44,754,742 million in bug bounty winnings. Hackers receiv...
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