DailyPost 461 CYBER SECURITY TRENDS 2018 Since 2014, Cyber Security has continually reminded the number one security threat to the world. WannaCry, Petya and backend ISIS of the Cyber World, Lazarus, hogged the international news headlines in 2017. Phishing becomes the most favoured initial access methodology and ransomware the ultimate tool. Machine Learning & Artificial […]
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DailyPost 457 COMMODITIZING RANSOMWARE – AS A SERVICE Modern business landscape has a paradigm shift to Subscription Economy. This model is not limited to Netflix & Spotify, Ransomware-as-a Service has gained currency. This system allows anybody with a internet connection, regardless of their technical literacy, to purchase powerful ransomware via the Dark Web & carry
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DailyPost 451 UBIQUITOUS SURVEILLANCE As the privacy debates rages globally, govts diametrically opposite in their creation & thought processes, US & China end up doing the same thing, albeit in different way, working on the same strength of technology. Internet was supposed to herald a new age of freedom, beyond national boundaries, but has become
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DailyPost 448 CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE. At the backend of every critical infrastructure is a critical information infrastructure, which keeps it moving. This is the nervous system of the critical information infrastructure as all communications & operations is nearly fully controlled by this system. From banking to power to oil, all that propels our existence is
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DailyPost 446 DATA PROTECTION FRAMEWORK The Supreme Court of India, recently declared Privacy as a fundamental right. It left it to the Expert Committee under Hon’ble Justice B.N. Srikrishna to work out the modalities. For the purpose of designing a carefully structured regime of data protection, a ”White Paper of the Committee of Experts on
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DailyPost 438 REVOLVING DOORS & BACKDOORS While the Privacy debate rages at the highest pitch, the companies guaranteeing privacy from the rooftops, the hapless user is super confident of his data, the harsh reality is either data is passing through revolving doors between govt. & the corporates or the hardware & the software have back
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DailyPost 437 CYBER POLICE & CYBER SOLDIERS In a recent interview the CEO of Checkpoint stressed the need of Cyber Police & Cyber Soldiers. He meant that these agencies perform the same tasks & carry the same responsibilities which their counterpart do for the physical world. We literally live in the cyber world today. But
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DailyPost 436 NSA : Do they know all? Lead by the National Security Agency, NSA, US’s 17 intelligence agencies see the world differently. Shrouded in secrecy, with an estimated US spending of $ 72 billions on intelligence, more than rest of the world combined, is an information regime, for accessing, collecting & analysing every single
DailyPost 432 CAN WE SALVAGE PRIVACY? Edward Snowden ripped off the lid of Govt. surveillance in the US, the shock US & the world has not been able to recover from. The start of the privacy movement will remain to be Edward Snowden’s lasting legacy. To call his leaks as the 9/11 of Privacy sounds
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DailyPost 420 TRANSACTING DIGITAL IDENTITY In an all pervasive digital world, everybody has a digital identity. The primary is the official databases, from where identity theft is done as in the case of US Federal Database of 23 million employees. The other is digital / virtual identity as created in various profiles; Google, LinkedIn, Instagram,
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DailyPost 417 CCTV PROTOCOL CCTVs have become all pervasive, for good, bad or the ugly, it is here to stay. These networks provide the live & video footages generally of public places, as our personal pictures & videos. The huge demand & so small to big projects are developing as a jungle growth, not able
