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At Akruto, we are passionate about cybersecurity and all that happens in the industry. In light of numerous data breaches and hacks, we share our view on data security and privacy best standards through our product and blog. We believe that the more awareness of modern cybersecurity threats people have, the less room there is for hackers and other malicious actors to compromise people’s personal [...]
In the era of accelerated technological progress, the management of small businesses has become much easier. For small businesses, the use of digital technologies is not a luxury, but a vital necessity. When every person on the team is worth their weight in gold, then applications that automate important organizational issues help facilitate business processes, and enable leisure time and self-development. Now small business owners [...]
Scrolling through the deluge of articles reporting data hacks or breaches is becoming an everyday activity—luckily, there are applications to facilitate your efforts. Check out our top six recommendations that will undoubtedly become your best allies in defending your privacy and providing online security. Researching news about cyber security has become part of the daily routine for many people. The more technology evolves, the harder [...]
It turns out that after the recent authentication outage, thousands of Outlook.com users are experiencing trouble with syncing their emails on any connected devices. Whether it's time to move away from using the Cloud? The outage took place at around 10 am PDT on March 21st, but many people still experience problems with connecting to their cloud accounts. The new Microsoft authentication issue prevents users [...]
A distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, is a malware attack directed at online services aiming to overwhelm them with traffic from multiple sources, and make them unavailable to legitimate users. From 2013 to 2015 the size of the attacks increased by an average of 30% per year. And in 2016 the attacks reached a new level in terms of size, complexity, [...]
Amazon Alexa was initially created as a voice platform to let users order items from Amazon.com through the Internet-connected Echo device. Now it seems as if Amazon planned a much greater future for Alexa. As time goes on and technology evolves, this amazing virtual assistant is getting smarter and smarter adding new skills and features to its bag of tricks. Since its inception, Alexa has [...]
A huge wave of cybercrime has stormed England and Wales, putting businesses and laypeople at risk. As reported by the Office for National Statistics, there were over five million cases of hacker attacks registered in just one year across the victimized countries. Considering the 8% rise in cyber criminality, protecting private data from attackers, especially when it comes to businesses, becomes problematic. Radware, one of [...]
The latest security update drew a lot of attention when the news proclaiming WhatsApp security unreliable, broke on the Internet. WhatsApp Security Concerns WhatsApp data security has always been a question for all who care about their data privacy. Because of the WhatsApp’s popularity, its security protocols were on hackers’ top-target list for years. The WhatsApp security and privacy terms were static, but it appears Facebook [...]
How safe it is to connect your smartphone to public Wi-Fi or PC? With the increasing use of smartphones, we all know the amount of personal data that can be stored in this very small device—business contacts, important notes, credit card information or even some sensitive personal data related to your location. The constant race for adding new smartphone features often leads to unanswered security questions. Any [...]
It may seem that technology progress has already reached its apogee with modern-day smartphones equipped with almost every modern convenience–functionality that we couldn’t even imagine ten years ago! The high-res screen and super-fast processor, incredible image definition and brightness, express charging–that’s what convinced people to buy smartphones in 2016. We saw a lot of amazing smartphones in 2016 and most of them, really worth buying. [...]
It may seem that technology progress has already reached its apogee with modern-day smartphones equipped with almost every modern convenience–functionality that we couldn’t even imagine ten years ago! The high-res screen and super-fast processor, incredible image definition and brightness, express charging–that’s what convinced people to buy smartphones in 2016. We saw a lot of amazing smartphones in 2016 and most of them, really worth buying. [...]
After one of the biggest cybersecurity breaches in history, it is reported that Yahoo hack is even worse than originally believed. According to the estimates, nearly 1 billion Yahoo accounts were breached, compared to last year’s 500 million breached accounts report. What hackers can do with your Yahoo credentials Hackers who stole the information from Yahoo servers now have your name, password, answers to your security [...]
A recently reported malware continues to breach 13k new Android devices each day; the malware known as Gooligan that specializes in hacking smartphones running old Android versions. Gooligan spreads itself by sending text messages with a link to infected apps hosted on 3rd party app stores that can look like a message from someone you know encouraging you to try a “new and amazing” [...]
With each passing year, we witness how the importance of cyber security grows not just for Fortune 500 companies, but for SMBs and individuals. The latest survey performed by Insureon where Akruto Inc. founder, George Tatar, was featured as one of contributors, reveals shocking data: one in five small-business owners does not use any antivirus software and two in three business owners update their [...]
The recently announced 500 million Yahoo accounts hack is the biggest data breach yet seen. This incident led to compromising email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and answers to security questions, which is more than enough for an identity theft or compromising accounts on other online services. Yahoo said in a statement: "Online intrusions and thefts by state-sponsored actors have become increasingly common across [...]
Evernote is no longer free if you want to sync your notes with more than two devices. Beginning in late June, Evernote has limited its users to sync notes with only up to two devices with the free plan. Their pricing policy has changed as well. Right now Plus and Premium plans cost $4 and $8 per month, respectively, compared to the $3 and [...]
Android-Sync software has a credible history and seems to have helped thousands of people sync their Outlook calendars and contacts’ data, as well as notes and tasks. However, with each passing month we see an increasing number of new customers who have switched from Android-Sync to AkrutoSync. Most are searching for Android-Sync alternative to remain syncing Outlook data with their Android devices. The two main [...]
Export Outlook Calendar to Excel If you’re looking for a way to share your Outlook calendar with others, you can export your Outlook calendar to Excel, and then import it into others’ Outlook calendar folder by following these steps: Go to File> Open & Export > Import/Export.When Import and Export Wizard opens, under Choose an action to perform, select Export to a file. Then click Next to continue.In the Export to a File dialog, [...]
Getting frustrated that you can’t get Outlook to sync with your phone? You can share Outlook calendar and contacts from your computer with Android, Windows Phone, iPhones, and other mobile devices in several ways. Here’s what may be happening that Outlook calendar won’t sync to your phone. Outlook calendar won’t sync with iPhone, iPad, and iPad Touch It’s common to be humming along with using iTunes [...]
Who says our mobile devices have to look bland with simple, solid-colored cases? Give them personality representing your favorite things or enhance your mobile device with special features. No longer do you have to sacrifice a cool design to have a case that does what you want. For me, I like a case that is grippy so I don’t have to worry about it [...]
The smartphone industry has undergone huge changes in the past year. You have more phone plan options. No longer are you stuck signing a contract with a carrier, paying a couple hundred bucks up front, and agreeing to monthly fees for the duration of the contract. Here’s everything you need to know about the best smartphones when shopping for your next one. The best plan [...]
Despite the growing use of the cloud, the truth is most people are concerned about privacy. TRUSTe Privacy Index has found that just “20 percent of U.S. consumers believe the benefit of smart devices outweigh any privacy concern about their personal information.” Americans aren’t alone, as only 14 percent of British consumers believe the benefit of devices outweigh privacy concerns. Furthermore, “Customer Data: Designing for [...]
Retailers have started putting up the Christmas and holiday decorations. They’re also rolling out deals including pre-Black Friday specials. It’s insane. We’d like to enjoy Thanksgiving first. But we also try to shop early rather than doing it all last minute. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid al-Adha, Festivus, or none of the above, this is a popular time of the year to trade [...]
Workers will not soon forget the night the lights went out on Google Drive. Luckily it happened on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend, giving people an excuse to duck out of work early or catch up on other work. If anyone tried to access a file on Google Drive, they encountered this scary message: “Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist. [...]
