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 […]
Daily Post 1339 SELF RESTRAINT – THE COVID-19 WINNER Needless to say this health crisis has given lessons on how to live way beyond parents, colleagues and organisations could have ever taught us. Keeping small kids locked up for months together is no small task. It’s a challenge for both, they have very successfully gone
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
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
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
Daily Post 1335 THE DATA BAZAAR! While the tonnes of data locked in enterprise severs remain un-utilised for any value add, planning or business solutions, the hackers are out in the open, in lockdown relaxation, hitting the world at a totally different pace. The one in news is Truecaller, which all of us use for
Daily Post 1334 IS SUPERFICIALITY A FAD? To be operational in today’s world there is considerable level of depth that is required. To get the cross connect of different operating systems and processes which finally complement our understanding, depth required is again considerable. Think of all the people around and compare them to the end
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
Daily Post 1332 GOVERNMENT / GOVERNANCE SANS POLITICS The democratic presumption which can safely be arrived at, is that once a political party forms the government, it should function sans politics. That is why Govt’s don’t have the names of political parties attached to it. The existence of political parties and the electoral battle which
Daily Post 1331 THE GYAN WEBINARS! COVID-19 has created a new breed of Gyani’s who are there on webinars churning out wisdom for the world still in captivity, few relaxations notwithstanding. Besides the ever engaging content of the WhatsApp University, anything which comes to the be close second are the eFlyers proclaiming webinars, bringing in
Daily Post 1330 IS FRICTION OUR FATE! If you see the world around you, more so the superfluous media all around the place, you would find it to be strange that friction takes the maximum of media space. The political parties which rule the states and the centre and friction emanating out of it, even
