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 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 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 1267 RANSOMWARE’s NEW BLACKMAIL TACTICS Ransomware attacks across the globe has been taking out the sails of the smooth sailing IT and other enterprises for quite sometime now. The methodologies has been wide and varied starting from social engineering and finally ending up encrypting data and making a neat sum out of it.
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Daily Post 1264 PEGASUS AND THE POCKET SPY Pegasus, created by NSO of Israel goes down as the deadliest tool made for compromising smartphones. The tales of Jamal Khassogi’s friend’s phone being compromised can send down chill through anybody’s spine. NSO is best known for marketing Pegasus. This is a highly invasive tool which is
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DailyPost 1206 THE IS A HACK IN EVERYTHING How can any major international action happen without being a hack in it? From run up to the US Presidential Elections in 2016 to the present unfolding saga to impeachment, hacks have been showing up with persistent regularity. Europe had its own share of woes emanating from
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DailyPost 1201 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Most of the world keeps debating what emerging and disruptive technologies are, what the impact would be, what is the level of research & development, how long would be take to become a product and when would it reach the mass level. And the final thought is that it would never
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DailyPost 1179 RANSOMED FOR SURE! Ransom as a demand for kidnap for humans and then data is becoming multi-dimensional by the day, way beyond one could have ever imagined. The choice between pay or not to pay has become more intriguing / complex / tedious & worrisome. It has crossed the limits of losing money
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DailyPost 1177 NOW IT IS NEW ORLEANS! The ransomware tsunami has been raging through the US for quite sometime. It’s New Orlean’s turn now. There were over 20 local self governing bodies who went through this attack in 2018 -19 till sometime in Aug / Sept this year when another 22 such bodies in Texas
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