Daily Post 1367 HACKATHON LIFE CYCLE Hackathons are supposed to be one odd technical event, unconnected to the world, students turning out in hordes, to sharpen their coding skills and getting recognition, used for getting jobs or for getting admitted to premier educational institutions. It has a nerdy environment that itself gives the kick of […]
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Daily Post 1365 HACKABLE ANIMALS! The rules of the game are changing right under our feet and the world is not realising the same. The free ride of the IT behemoths means mortgaging your freedom, ex-social media, what would follow is way worse. While technologists are singing tunes of the benefits of technology, it’s ugly
Daily Post 1362 RANSOMWARE’S NEW VALUABLE HOSTAGE The rules of the game are changing in this corona infected world. So to say the world has been infected. Though not directly connected, rules of ransomware game is changing to be more paying as it turns out to be more damaging with every passing major attack. Ransomware
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Daily Post 1359 CYBER ATTACK SPARKED OUTAGES A cyber hack / breach, outage of humungous proportions is the last thing one would like to get into when most of things being treated normal have already got into the ”outaged” state. On Monday, sudden and wide ranging outages in online communications services in the US seems
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Daily Post 1353 ANOTHER RANSOMWARE SHUTDOWN The woes does not seem to end this season. With COVID-19 and George Floyd protests engulfing the US, a cyber security attack in certainly not a welcome incident. It is small incident compared to other two of gigantic proportions, nonetheless it seems to be the beginning of another round
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Daily Post 1345 NEW CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECTURE Necessity is the mother of invention keeps getting proven over and over again in life. The digital world and cyber security has grown at its own pace not necessitated by any necessity to transform. Emergencies for them was meeting the timelines of software development and deployment or doing
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Daily Post 1342 FINALLY THE DARK NET! The dark net is the safe haven of the hackers, all sorts of bad guys at the underbelly of the internet, from the drug pedlars to money launderers to mercenary killers, running their own underground economy. The tentacles of Google does not extend to this part of the
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Daily Post 1340 THE DEEPFAKE THREAT We are already in the conundrum of Fake News and also the humungous fake content being created by the WhatsApp University, Deepfake threat adds a totally new dimension to the whole problem. Few recent Deepfake videos have shown what they can deliver. Seeing is believing, for the first time
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Daily Post 1338 RUSSIA’s MILITARY INTELLIGENCE ARM – GRU Not getting any news of hacking relating to GRU in a season of hacking was quite surprising. They have been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. The vulnerability is in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent which mostly runs on Unix-type operating
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Daily Post 1337 STATE BACKED HACKING – GOOGLE DISCLOSURE Hacking is here to stay and it would keep readapting itself depending on the situation and context and / or where the funding came from. Close to the heels of ransomware attack reaching 80% of the total this year, the disturbing trend Google sees is an
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Daily Post 1336 IS WORKING FROM HOME A CYBER SECURITY RISK? For the naive and uninitiated, cyber security was never a concern and in the digitally totally transformed Corona times, might be he would have heard just of Zoombombing. While we are busy with the known vulnerabilities of Zoom, the efforts to patch and the
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