DailyPost 2157 DIGITAL PREDATORY LENDING – A CASE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE CYBER POLICE We have decided to remain oblivious of the cyber-crime reality all around us. It was coming but nobody has ever bothered about it. Few cyber-crime cells and even fewer cyber-crime police stations are supposed to take care of the cyber physical world […]
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DailyPost 2156 APPs – SAFE SOURCING? Life has moved on the apps in a manner we would not have been able to imagine only a few years back. The dependency is near total as has our life moved away from the laptop to the smartphone as far as most of the necessary functions of life
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DailyPost 2154 MASSIVE DDOS ATTACKS Distributed denial of service attacks is directed to bring down services / website and by its very nature it has to be humungous, failing which it does not serve the purpose. Even by the DDOS standards that nature of attacks which have been taking place in the recent past has
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DailyPost 2143 WAR WITHIN A WAR Cyber war is a part of any conventional war today. It aids, abets and propels the cause. It complements and supplements the war effort. It creates a level of asymmetry, without the world getting a different feel of it. If done surreptitiously it can even go noticed. It can
DailyPost 2137 SPYWARE – THE WORLD ON A POWDER KEG Our faith in our wellness and a secure future for ourselves and the nation, notwithstanding whatever is happening in the world in different arenas and in complexity, it our strength. This great attribute has brought this far, how far would it take us further, is
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DailyPost 2132 LOCKBIT 3.0 At the backend of the huge hue and cry regarding ransomware attacks are the gangs that make it happen. These gangs have been marauding the cyber world by way of sector expertise like finance or the way / signature to perpetrate the attack. Lazarus, a North Korean hacking group shook the
DailyPost 2130 CANADIAN TOWN UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK! Every single ransomware is a time to brood, whether we will ever change our cyber security stance. It would need a monumental effort, more for organizations with meagre resources or with irresponsible users or both. Expertise and user responsibility will show the way. You will improve only when
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DailyPost 2127 ENTRUST – HOW DO WE GET BACK DIGITAL TRUST? Hacking is the new normal, a phrase which has been oft repeated, but has not led to any commendable improvement, in the cyber security scenario of the world. Might be the victims or the users have been improving on this front, but the hackers
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DailyPost 2124 SOLARWINDS TACTICS IS BACK! SolarWinds hacks as it is known was detected in Dec 2020, was a supply chain attack on its Orion software. It is widely used in government and industry. As it came as a part of patch management / upgrade, so there was no way it could be suspected. Fire
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DailyPost 2122 DIGITAL IMPOSTER! Ransomware has been keeping the security teams and the world on its toes. The security challenges of the ever-expanding galaxy of Internet of Things devices and of cloud computing have added extremely complex dimensions to the ever-fragile cyber security scenario. If this was not enough, we are already in the age
DailyPost 2119 LIVES ON RANSOM! Hostage and ransom have been known to the criminal world for ages. It is executed in a variety of ways, for different reasons and motives. Criminal gangs to terrorists all indulge in this act, mostly for ransom and at times for other reasons. This takes a quantum leap in the
