security
What are Cyber threats? A cyber threat is any event with the potential to harm any information system, disclose or leak private information, or denial a service for its intended users. Types of cyber threats? 1. DoS attacks: "Denial of Service" 2. DDoS attacks: Distributed denial of service
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Why do you need a password manager? If you are an active internet user, then you have dozens of accounts with different passwords on many web services. Therefore, you will need to a password manager to keep your passwords and authentication private information in a secure place. The password manager
Open-source
What is a password manager? A password manager app is a program that saves and records all of your passwords in one locked secure vault with one master password. There are several paid and commercial password managers for macOS, therefore, we compiled this list of open-source, free alternatives. Open-source Password
Password Manager
What is LessPass? LessPass is a free, web-based password manager for individuals. The project is maintained by a large community of developers and software engineers. LessPass uses PBKDF2 with 100,000 iterations and a hash function sha-256. Password generation is based on pure functions. Features 1. The project is released
privacy
What is KeePass? KeePass is considered the most popular open-source password manager, and not just among end-users, but also among developers who ported it to all known platforms. KeePass helps users to manage their passwords securely and privately, without having to worry about many technical details. It supports several encryption
Password Manager
What is Buttercup? Buttercup is a lightweight password manager for desktop and mobile. It comes with a strong 256bit AES encrypted vault that keeps your passwords and credentials secure and safe. Buttercup is a completely free, open-source solution which means you can download and use it without worrying about lock-in
Open-source
What is AuthPass? AuthPass is a multi-platform, free, and open-source password manager for all types of users. AuthPass is fully compatible with the popular open-source KeePass password manager, which many consider the father of open-source password managers. The app is written with Flutter which is gaining popularity among developers building
Enterprise
Single Sign-On (SSO) is a login service layer that allows users to sign in to multiple apps with a single login. Using SSO service to improve security, save the user from having to deal with multiple passwords, login sessions, and losing time. In contrast, SSO "Single-Sign-On" is an
Android
An email client app is responsible for accessing your email messages on the server from your device. Mail clients are available for desktop, or can even come in a self-hosted web-based form, which the user can install and use on their own servers local or remote. We have covered self-hosted
privacy
While the aim is to hide identities and protect us, free proxies come with a certain amount of risk. Free proxies sometimes end up doing the exact opposite of what we set them up to do. Proxies mask the original IP address so that web servers do not know the
Healthcare
Diabetes is a long-lasting (chronic) health condition, that occurs when blood sugar is too high. It is a life-altering disease, as it changes eating habits and exercises routine. Diabetes management apps are many, and they come as web-based services, standalone mobile apps, and desktop apps. However, most of them are
Articles
According to a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center, over 64% of Americans have experienced some data breach in the past. Unfortunately, several hackers on the internet are waiting for the slightest opportunity to take advantage of your data online. Therefore, it is essential to understand the kind of
Open-source
You really need to install a secure VPN on your Android mobile to protect you from malicious attacks that steal sensitive information when you are using public Wi-Fi to allow you to stream spectacular content from around the world, to give you access to Google, Twitter and other censored sites,
privacy
According to a statistical report published by Statista in July 2020, Google Chrome accounted for 69% of the global desktop web-browser market share by June 2020, with 11% increase from the last year. Google Chrome is mostly based on Chromium which is an open-source web-browser released and maintained by Google.
Android
/e/ is an Android-based mobile operating system with primary focus on user's privacy and security. /e/ is Google services and apps-free system, the user will not get any Google services or other Android built-in Google apps running in the background. The main selling point for this system is
Open-source
Most popular web browsers does not care much about user privacy with minor exceptions for Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Privacy is not a luxury, it's a necessity especially nowadays when our private data, interests, usage behaviors are becoming a product for many companies and enterprises to use to
communication
Privacy is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Unfortunately, It's hard to find privacy-focused applications that really consider its users. Our topic today is about one of this rare privacy-focused app: Session. So what's Session? Session: A Privacy-First Messenger The Session messenger is an
macos
As a Linux user for so many years and a regular macOS user for the last 7 years, It is very hard to deal with the dilemma of limitation and free open-source programs for macOS. The system is stable, responsive and fast. Though it increased my productivity, unlike Linux, there
security
Digital health has significantly impacted medicine owing to the new methods for treating common ailments. Despite the major benefits of digital therapeutics, there has been a steady increase in health data breaches. Medtech and biopharma hold sensitive information such as patient outcomes and company reputations, which pose a high potential
privacy
Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows the user to create a secure connection to another network over the internet, it encrypts your Internet traffic and protects your online identity. VPN provides security, safe content and website access, privacy, and bypass the local blocking or geographic restrictions of websites or services. VPN
VPN
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network and is useful for protecting one's information while using a public Wi-Fi or online banking for example. Some countries allow only approved VPNs (like Russia and China) while other countries ban VPN altogether (like North Korea and Belarus), but the majority of
HIPAA
Doctors and Healthcare professionals use emails every day, however, the standard daily used email services are not HIPAA-compliant, and they often not designed to transfer and share ePHI (Protected Health Information). In this article, we are trying to shed some light on the most HIPAA-compliant email services for the healthcare