Arun Vishwanath of New York, studying the diffusion of innovations, asks the far too relevant question: Why do we still teach our kids ABC? Today most preschoolers already know words like Xbox and Zoom, why do we waste time teaching them words like xylophone and zebra, that have no connection to their experiences and hence […]
Category: CyberSecurity Musings
How to protect yourself from online shopping scams
In the 21st Century, we live in an age where there is absolutely no dearth of shopping avenues. With the endless onslaught of technology and the recent COVID-19 crisis, fashion has found platforms of the exhibition right on our laptop and mobile screens. Online shopping is something we all do, from hip teenagers keeping up […]
Why Smartphones Are More Susceptible To Social Attacks
Several research studies point to customers being substantially much more vulnerable to social attacks on their smartphones. This is the case for email-based spear phishing, spoofing attacks that try to imitate genuine webpages, as well as attacks by means of social networking sites. The reasons for this originate from the way mobile devices are designed […]
Mobile Telephony is Dying
The rapidly aggressive growth of technology today, accelerated by the pandemic, is witness to many fundamental and large-scale changes in our usage of internet-based services. Our primary business model of enabling phone calls and text messaging, also known as Mobile Telephony, is slowly dying out. There appears to be proof of the opposite, seeing surging […]
Data Security in the Cloud: Part 2
In Part 1 of the article, we discussed some major vulnerabilities stemming from cloud-sharing services, including opening emails from unknown addresses due to routinization, lack of a personal stamp on such emails causing lack of authenticity, unverifiable hyperlinks, and ultimately, the violation of cyber safety training drills. In Part 2, we will explore the solutions […]
Data Security in the Cloud: Part 1
Today, most users perceive the cloud as safe online software and operating environments, online backup, storage, and file-sharing systems. From Chrome OS, Google’s App Engine, to iCloud, users rely on these systems in today’s technological age, basking in its various resourceful benefits including capabilities for predicting and reacting to adverse events, lowering the possibilities of […]