A must read article to get your head around this. As the article puts it, this stuff isn’t vaporware dreams—it’s real, it’s here already, and it’s changing your life whether you realize it or not.
Ransomware attacks are often seen as just nuisance when you have a good backup. However it is a disaster for many businesses when you have no fallback. Remember a ransomware is a monster with two heads. One, it denies you access your data. Two, what...
Yes there has been yet another huge data breach. This time it is Capital One which according to Wikipedia “is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings accounts headquartered in McLean, Virginia...
Security is a jigsaw. It has a lot of pieces (network security, email security, endpoint security etc) but to have the perfect fit, you have to align them correctly. You cannot replace a piece with a different piece even if you have more than one...
The Japanese government has passed a new law which will allow them to access IoT devices in JApan with default username and password. In effect the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) employee will attempt to login...
Lets look into the basics of schedule scan also known as on-demand scan (this includes right-click scan). In the days when endpoint relied on anti-virus alone, schedule scan played a critical role in complementing the real-time scan also known as on...
The general public are waking up to the reality that password alone is not a long term solution. More and more people are opting in for a more secure way to safeguard their digital life by way of enabling two factor authentication (2FA) -also known...
Bruce Schneier is a well known cryptographer, author and cyber security expert. Here is Bruce answering Reddit community’s questions in a “Ask Me Anything” style. If you ignore his book promotion mention, there are a lot of good...
The General Data Protection Regulation protects European (GDPR) citizens’ data. This forces organisations to ensure measures are in place to uphold the safeguard of this data if they are hosting, exchanging or transacting with it. The...
Here is an interesting research from Ruhr-Universität Bochum & New York University Abu Dhabi detailing attack vectors on LTE protocol -better know as 4G.
