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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DailyPost 1059 IOT DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS The Internet as we understand today is being termed as the Internet of Information and we go moved further machines got connected with machines and now literally everything is getting connected to Internet. This is what is called as the Internet of Things. Everything would have
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DailyPost 1057 EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK WEBSITE HACKED After every hack the organisation / bank comes with the public statement that it takes cyber security most seriously and the data lost in not critical data. In some instances it’s true as well but what is critical is the vulnerability. Vulnerability is directly proportional to customer trust
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DailyPost 1034 THE NEW EBOLA Ransomware is turning out to be the new Ebola, the digital one. From its popular genesis in WannaCry, though it been existing earlier as well, it has gained from strength to strength, in the process becoming the most favoured tool of the hackers and presumably in some cases even nation
DailyPost 1023 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES – FUTURE CRIMES The technology landscape in changing by the hour and criminals being the first and best adopters of technology, it is bound to have a harrowing time for the Police. Edward Snowden remains the watershed between the two worlds, old digital technology and the path breaking world of emerging
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DailyPost 1004 RANSOMWARE PAYMENTS Ransomware has been the cynosure of the hacking fraternity for quite some time now and it shows no signs of ebbing given the mammoth impact it can make across countries as in the case WannaCry, critical infrastructure notwithstanding. It can make companies and governments come to a grinding halt. Hackers gained
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DailyPost 973 BALITMORE’s UNENDING ORDEAL Cyber Security became the number one security risk for the US in 2014 and continuous to hold the first position to this day. While the cyber security threat perception has been taking a steep downslide, the governments, IT and Cyber Security companies want us believe to the contrary. The bravado
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DailyPost 970 BALTIMORE SYNDROME Baltimore is in the midst of a digital tragedy still unfolding, having struck on the 7th of May 2019, making its presence felt in the physical space; water, parking payments, property transactions et al and the quality of life or a new mode of harassment for the people living in the
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DailyPost 969 BALTIMORE OFFLINED Political leadership would slowly need a skill which is even beyond imagination today – the capability to provide resilient IT systems, crisis handling of hack or a breach or a ransomware attack on critical infrastructure or utilities. Baltimore’s new mayor is learning the hard way. With barely a month into his
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DailyPost 962 WHAT’SAPP HACKED! Even while one is forced to accept the fact that getting hacked is the new normal, the circumstances, discovery and its dissemination has put the whole world in a quandary. WhatsApp is where the world communication converges and that too in the multimedia mode, a prime culprit for social media addiction.
