Introduction

The phone rings: It sounds like your CEO, or your manager, or a vendor you work with all the time.

The tone is familiar, urgency feels real, request sounds legitimate…but none of it is real.

Hackers are often portrayed as cybercriminals lurking in the shadows, but the reality is more complex. From malicious attackers to ethical security experts, hackers come in different forms. This article explains the three main types of hackers and how their motivations and activities differ.

Hackers are often portrayed as cybercriminals lurking in the shadows, but the reality is more complex. From malicious attackers to ethical security experts, hackers come in different forms. This article explains the three main types of hackers and how their motivations and activities differ.

Hackers are often portrayed as cybercriminals lurking in the shadows, but the reality is more complex. From malicious attackers to ethical security experts, hackers come in different forms. This article explains the three main types of hackers and how their motivations and activities differ.

Hackers rarely break into networks through the front door. They usually sneak in through forgotten office equipment running obsolete code. The factory-installed programming on your devices needs regular patching to stay secure. Maintaining these systems might seem tedious or disruptive to your daily tasks, but neglecting them actually poses a massive risk to your entire organization.

As your computer stores more data, it may begin to struggle with accessing and processing information quickly. Fortunately, disk cleanups are a simple way to address this issue and boost your PC’s performance. Here’s how it works:

Introduction

When we hear about cyber-crime, we often imagine far-off threat actors setting complex traps to mess with huge organizations.

Introduction

If a device still turns on and does what you need it to do, many people don’t look further. We keep using older laptops, phones, tablets, or software simply because nothing appears to be wrong.

It’s Monday morning.
Coffee in hand. Laptop open. You’re ready to get moving.

Then your elbow clips the mug.

Time slows down just long enough for you to watch coffee spill across the keyboard and disappear into places coffee should never go.

It’s March.

Your accountant is buried. Your bookkeeper is scrambling. Deadlines are looming. Emails are flying faster than anyone can keep up.

Everyone’s head is down, just trying to get through the month.

This isn’t news to you.

But it isn’t news to hackers either.