Cybersecurity and Online Privacy

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Why It Matters More Than Ever

In a hyperconnected world, protecting your digital footprint is no longer optional—it’s essential. As we store more personal, financial, and business data online, the threats to cybersecurity and privacy have grown significantly. From data breaches to identity theft, the risks are real and evolving fast.

💡 Defining the Basics

  • Cybersecurity refers to the technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from unauthorized access, attacks, or damage.
  • Online Privacy focuses on your ability to control how your personal information is collected, used, and shared across digital platforms.

⚠️ The Rising Threat Landscape

  • Phishing attacks are increasingly sophisticated, often disguised as legitimate communications.
  • Data leaks from poorly secured websites expose sensitive user data.
  • Ransomware targets individuals and businesses alike, locking down systems until a ransom is paid.
  • Tracking and profiling by advertisers and platforms challenge the concept of user consent.

🔐 Practical Steps to Strengthen Your Digital Security

  • Adopt password best practices: Use unique, complex passwords for every platform, and store them using a trusted password manager like Bitwarden or 1Password.
  • Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): This adds an extra verification layer beyond your password, greatly reducing the chances of unauthorized access.
  • Be cautious with links and attachments: Avoid opening suspicious emails or clicking unknown URLs—even if they appear to come from trusted sources.
  • Apply regular software updates: Keep your devices, operating systems, and applications patched to protect against newly discovered vulnerabilities.
  • Use secure connections: Avoid public Wi-Fi or use a VPN to encrypt your traffic when you must connect outside a trusted network.
  • Review privacy settings on platforms like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn to minimize data exposure.

🧠 Pro Tip

Clear your browser cookies regularly and consider using privacy-focused browsers or extensions (like Brave, Firefox, or DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials) to limit online tracking.

📌 Final Thought

Cybersecurity isn’t just a concern for IT departments or large corporations. Whether you’re a freelancer, student, or business owner, your digital identity is valuable—and vulnerable. Staying proactive about your online safety not only protects your data but helps maintain the integrity of the broader internet ecosystem.

Inbox Overload?

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Here’s How to Avoid Spam Emails Like a Pro

We’ve all been there—opening our inbox only to be greeted by a flood of irrelevant offers, shady links, and mysterious “You’ve won!” messages. Spam emails aren’t just annoying; they can be risky, too. The good news? You can reclaim your inbox. Here are some simple, effective tips to keep spam at bay.

  1. Use a Secondary Email for Sign-Ups
    Create a separate email account just for newsletters, online shopping, and other non-essential services. This keeps your primary inbox clean and reduces the chance of it being targeted by spammers.
  2. Don’t Click “Unsubscribe” in Suspicious Emails
    It sounds counterintuitive, but clicking “unsubscribe” on sketchy emails can actually confirm to spammers that your email is active—leading to even more spam. If you don’t recognize the sender, it’s better to mark it as spam instead.
  3. Be Careful Where You Share Your Email
    Think twice before posting your email publicly (like on forums or social media profiles). Spammers use bots to scrape sites for email addresses. If you need to share it, use formats like “yourname [at] domain [dot] com” to avoid detection.
  4. Use Email Filters and Spam Settings
    Most email platforms like Gmail or Outlook have built-in spam filters. Take a few minutes to adjust your settings or create rules that automatically filter suspicious content.
  5. Never Respond to Spam Emails
    Replying—even to tell them off—signals that your email is active. Don’t engage. Just report and delete.
  6. Watch Out for “Phishing” Attempts
    Some spam isn’t just annoying—it’s dangerous. Look out for emails asking for personal information, urgent payment requests, or links that look a little… off. Always verify before clicking.
  7. Use Tools and Extensions
    Consider using anti-spam browser extensions or services like Spamhaus or MailWasher that help filter or block known spam sources.

Conclusion:
A clutter-free inbox is possible—and it starts with a few smart habits. By being a little more cautious with your email activity, you’ll not only reduce spam but also protect yourself from potential scams. Your inbox will thank you.

Embracing AI in Everyday Life

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Tips for Seamless Integration

Introduction: As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize various aspects of our lives, understanding how to integrate AI seamlessly can enhance efficiency and convenience. Whether you’re new to AI or looking to optimize its use, here are some practical tips to get started.

Tips for Embracing AI:

  1. Personal Assistants: Utilize AI-powered personal assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa to streamline daily tasks such as scheduling appointments, setting reminders, and managing to-do lists.
  2. Smart Home Devices: Invest in smart home devices that leverage AI for improved energy efficiency, security monitoring, and home automation. Examples include smart thermostats, security cameras, and lighting systems.
  3. Health and Fitness: Explore AI-driven apps and wearables that track fitness metrics, provide personalized workout plans, and monitor health indicators, offering actionable insights for a healthier lifestyle.
  4. Online Shopping: Take advantage of AI algorithms on e-commerce platforms that recommend products based on your browsing history and preferences, making shopping more personalized and efficient.
  5. Learning and Education: Enroll in online courses and educational platforms that use AI to personalize learning experiences, adapt content to individual learning styles, and provide real-time feedback.

Conclusion: As AI continues to evolve, integrating these technologies into our daily routines can significantly enhance productivity, convenience, and overall quality of life. By embracing AI responsibly and staying informed about its capabilities, we can harness its potential to create a smarter, more connected world.

Cloudtech Directors Participate in Reflect Festival Cyprus 2019

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Reflect Festival is the largest future casting festival between Southern Europe and the Middle East. Join the hundreds of people that attended our festival last year and help us make it even greater this year with over 1000 expected attendees. On May 9-10, 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus you’ll get a chance to meet and get inspired by the greatest innovators in the world.

For more info about Reflect Festival, visit our website : http://reflectfest.com/

How Does SSL certificate Fit into GDPR?

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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a broad-reaching regulation meant to protect the private data of Europeans in IT systems. The 99-article regulation is very long and covers a broad variety of topics. Announced in 2017, GDPR will go into effect as a requirement on May 25, 2018. GDPR applies to any company doing business in Europe even if it is located elsewhere. So for any business with an online presence that is available for Europeans to use – if you sell to Europe or give access to online services – you need to be GDPR compliant or potentially face massive fines.

Though it does not contain any specific section on the use of SSL certificates, GDPR has clear requirements that can only be addressed through the use of SSL certificates. Article 32 of the regulation (“Security”) begins this way:

Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate:

the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;
the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services;
In other words, GDPR states that regulated information must be protected with “appropriate technical and organisational measures,” including encryption of personal data and the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality of systems and services. Digital certificates (including TLS/SSL) and encryption have been de facto requirements for all confidential communications across the open internet more more than 30 years and are among the most ubiquitous computing paradigms in place today.

So what data are affected? The regulation includes nearly any personal data including PII (personally identifiable information), PHI (personal health information), web usage information, and a set of personal characteristics such as race, sexual orientation, and political opinion.

The good news is that from an SSL perspective GDPR aligns with well understood best practices anyway. If you’re putting all your site pages under https and using certificates to authenticate and encrypt communications between internal systems, you’re meeting the GDPR requirements for that component of data protection. And if you’re not, you should be doing so anyway in order to protect your customers, protect your own business, and maximize confidence in your site.

Project Completed, Cyprus-mail.com Mobile App

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One more project completed.
Thank you Cyprus Mail for giving us this opportunity.

The Cyprus Mail is delighted to announce that its new easy-to-use news app is ready for download.

You can now keep up to date with Cyprus, world and sports news throughout the day on your mobile or tablet.

The new app allows you to customize your news flow according to your interests and save stories to read offline at your leisure. All articles will be featured on the homepage, but the ‘My News’ section allows you to choose which news categories you want to appear.

Other features include a news alert option and a comments forum where you can post your views on any article.
A help guide is available (in the settings section) which can be accessed after downloading the app.

To download the app for androids visit the Playstore HERE:
For iPhones visit the App store HERE

The new Cyprus Mail mobile app was designed and developed by H & S Cloudtech LTD, a specialized IT solutions provider and Mobile/Web applications developer.

3 Reasons Why Developing Cloud-Native Applications is Worth the Time and Money

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by Anubhav Dwivedi

Globally, more than 65% of enterprises have started building their Applications Strategy and Roadmap on Cloud platforms. This percentage is expected to double by 2020. Cloud platforms, like Azure, are redefining the way enterprises scale their businesses. Tech-savvy enterprises are deploying game-changing technology solutions, and cloud-native applications are helping them stay ahead of the competition. Here are some of the major reasons why developing cloud-native applications is advantageous:

1. Auto-provisioning: Manage Resources automatically
Unlike the traditional applications where the resources are physically provided, Cloud-native applications enable automatic provision of resources. They facilitate on-demand, self-service, programmatic provisioning, and releasing of resources used for compute & storage services. This enables the business-critical applications to run smoothly with on-demand allocation of resources directly from the application. These applications can automatically handle the task of data analytics, and bring back the resources to the pool after executing the task.

2. Auto-scalability: Handle Continuous Business Needs automatically
Cloud-native applications are enabled with auto-scale feature to handle continuous business needs. This feature enables enterprises to deal with complex up-down process needs with the pay-as-you-go model. The enterprises are required to pay only for the computing resources used, and only for the time frame they are used. Consequently, this results in saving of thousands of dollars every year and enterprises can also expand their application life cycle.

2. Auto redundancy: Minimize Failure Risks automatically
The cloud-native applications are inherently resilient to failures. They automatically handle the outages and enable corrective actions. In the event of failure, application processing instantly moves from one data center to another without interrupting the service. This is executed so swiftly that the end user doesn’t even know that there was an outage. In case of the occurrence of a partial outage in one data center, the cloud-based applications will still continue running seamlessly.

Google Survey

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from a recent Google Survey, 48% of users feel that if a business website did not work well on their mobile devices, it simply meant that the company could not care less about their business. This might come as a shock to the businesses who have yet to invest  in a proper web platform. Ever since Smart Phones started being what they were in fact called after, your business automatically became mobile. Keeping up with the times has simply become another way of showing you respect your customer’s lifestyle.

85% of adults believe that the mobile version of the website should look better than the browser-based one. This is not surprising when most web analytics will show the sheer volume of users accessing a website from their mobile devices. If this does not convince you yet: 57% of consumers will not recommend a company with a bad mobile website and 67% of consumers are more likely to buy from a mobile friendly website. Mobile is the way to go.