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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Daily Post 1333 FREE NATIONAL CYBER CRIME COUNSELLING HELPLINE Given the accentuation of the digital transformation in the lockdown period, it was but natural for the cyber crimes to rise. While we remained in lockdown, our lives completely moved on to the digital world, without even we realising or planning for it. This has certainly
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Daily Post 1328 THE DIGITAL CAMOUFLAGE It seemed so real till the other day, a dream run, on way to the promised land and this summer has shown us all. That the make believe digital story was not the real story. It was believed that we have conquered the physical world and we are marauding
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Daily Post 1327 CYBER SECURITY – THE UTILITARIAN WAY While the headlines and the next avatar breaking news have been blaring incidents after incidents of cyber security breaches and also the how our operating systems, routers, apps, softwares etc are making us more and more vulnerable, our reactions are pretty mute, subdued and also numb
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Daily Post 1322 CYBER SECURITY – HANDS ON FOR THE AMATEUR Cyber Security workshops, training and seminars have been happening for quite sometime now. The stance of the users and if we delve deep into the habits of the resources who have been providing this guidance, doesn’t seem to have changed. It’s homilies all around;
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