The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic around the world has accelerated an already aggressively expanding technological age that we live in. Almost everything we do from research, official work, financial transactions, to shopping and entertainment, is all dependent on the internet. The sheer indispensability of online software in our daily life today is reason enough for us […]
Category: CyberSecurity Musings
Who Is To Blame For Cyber Attacks?
Today’s technological age, with the aggressively expanding cyberspace, is day by day increasing our dependency on the online cyber experience. The 2020 pandemic has only accelerated an already increasingly virtual world we live in. This has inevitably expanded the cyber challenges we are facing as well; in 2013, the Department of Defence and some US […]
Fighting Cyber Crime with Smarter Habits
In today’s expanding technological age, Cyber Crime has become a burning issue. It is increasingly becoming a common phenomenon which many experts and hackers can easily resort to. Hackers today have it really easy and convenient, where they can gain access to our computers and networking systems using really simple phishing techniques. They prey on […]
Time to rethink apps security
Tech Wizard Steve Jobs didn’t understand the potential of third-party mobile apps that turned mobile phones into smartphones, instead advocating the usage of mobile web-pages accessed through iPhone’s Safari browser. Fast-forwarding to now, across Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, we see a flood of apps for everything, from turning your camera flash into a flashlight, controlling […]
Cybersecurity’s weakest link: humans
The conversation around Cybersecurity has taken precedence in the technological age among cyber experts like Arun Vishwanath of New York. And the recent burning issue in cybersecurity is Spearphishing Attacks. Incidents like the 2016 breach that compromised 20 million federal employee records at the Office Personnel Management, and the US ransomware attacks that in three […]
Its Not Just Fake News, Facebook and Twitter! It’s the Internet’s Dark Triad We Should Be Worried About.
Today’s technological age, with the incessant flood of information, is inevitably victim to malicious content in the form of fake profiles and fake news on social media. The rapid dissemination of news across the world has woken us up to the realization that such malicious incidents are occurring every day, giving us an intimation that […]
Why do so many people fall for fake profiles online?
In today’s age of technology, we see an unending surge of information, often more than we can handle, causing us to sometimes lower our defenses in cybersecurity and protection. In these situations, it becomes relatively easy for fake social media profiles to worm their way into our real-person network, and it has become a radically […]
How much cyber hygiene do you need?
Cyber Hygiene is a term that is frequently evoked in cybersecurity circles, especially when there is a threat to our infrastructure or a data breach. Arun Vishwanath of New York believes it to be the elusive elixir of every cyber expert, that users cannot seem to have enough of. However, there is no specific recognized […]
The Troubling Implications of Weaponizing the Internet
With the aggressive onslaught of technology today, cyber experts like Arun Vishwanath of New York are predicting complete domination and war-like uses of the internet. Cyberwarfare has suddenly become a public phenomenon. There has been a significant paradigm shift in the use of the internet, from a tool of socialization and information to an instrument […]
Improving People’s Ability to Work From Home During the Pandemic
The unforeseen 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shook the entire world to the core. And if not for the blessing of technology – the Internet – we would witness the combustion of economies all around the world. The reason we have managed to stay afloat in this challenging time is our ability to be connected online from […]