Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

It's nothing new for cybercriminals to use sneaky HTML tricks in their attempt to infect computers or dupe unsuspecting recipients into clicking on phishing links. Spammers have been using a wide variety of tricks for years in an attempt to get their marketing messages past anti-spam filters and in front of human eyeballs. It's enough to make you wish that email clients didn't support HTML at all, and that every message had to be in plaintext email.

Many data breaches start with a compromised account from one of a company’s employees. Jérôme Berloty and Benjamin Netter decided to build a product based on that fact and launched Riot in 2020. ‍ Based in Paris, France, Riot combines learning modules and phishing simulations to raise cyber awareness and solve compliance needs. The courses are chat-based, five minutes long, and immersive and interactive, making learning more entertaining. ‍

Our actions determine outcomes, not our thoughts, our knowledge, or our intentions. Everyone working in cybersecurity knows that and is all too familiar with statistics like “more than 70% of cyber incidents are facilitated by human action” (in some reports, even up to 95%). Seemingly, security awareness is all about educating people about the dangers that be, but it does not cut to the chase of actually training people to do the right thing.

If your computer has been infected with a virus, you need to act quickly to contain the infection. You should install antivirus software to remove any viruses from your infected device. Computer viruses can be a hassle to deal with, and they put you at risk of a security breach, identity theft and loss of your personal data. Continue reading to learn what computer viruses are, how they spread, what signs to look out for, how to get rid of them and how to prevent them.