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DDoS Attacks: What Are Future Trends?

25th August 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

DDoS – Distributed Denial of Services are kinds of DOS attacks that are carried out by multiple compromised systems, infected with Trojan virus mostly, on a single system. DDoS attacks are double-edged knives as they are also adversely affecting the systems hackers are using to attack the victim system. (Beal) In DDoS, the traffic of malicious attack comes from various sources, sometimes from hundreds and thousands of origins. It is, therefore, impossible to handle such attack by just blocking a single IP address. (Beal) This makes it all the more dangerous and damaging to your online presence as an individual and as a company. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet of Things, Security Tagged With: cloud, ddos, doom scenario, hack, internet of things, Knowledge Base

What’s Wrong With the Antivirus Products?

18th August 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

“Antivirus” programs are designed to prevent viruses, malware and corrupt files from harming our computer system and data. That is the common perception attached with the concept of installing antivirus programs in our computers and laptops. Nowadays the term antivirus isn’t used as often as before, we call it “Security software” or “Internet Security”. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet of Things, Security Tagged With: antivirus, doom scenario, Knowledge Base, malware, security

Impact of End of Net Neutrality on Internet of Things

11th August 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

Internet of Things are an integral part of our lives without which, it is unimaginable to exist in this era of technological progression. Everything we use these days is some way or another, connected to Internet. So it comes as no surprise that changes in the net neutrality has direct impact on Internet of Things. Here in this article, we are going to discuss the influence end of net neutrality will have on Internet of Things, if and when it happens. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet of Things, Privacy, Responding to news, Security Tagged With: cloud, doom scenario, Encryption, internet of things, iot, Net Neutrality, Privacy

Ethereum: Is Cryptocurrency Really Safe?

4th August 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

Cryptocurrency – it came, it saw, it conquered; and now it is facing a foreign invasion. Its defences were breached by hackers who managed to get away with 153,000 ethers, which are $32 million in current exchange rate. Parity Technologies faced this security hack in their multi-signature wallet software while normal wallets are safe as yet. Before this, CoinDash had to cancel their ICO after facing a $10 million hack. (Wilmoth, 2017) [Read more…]

Filed Under: BlockChain, Money, Responding to news Tagged With: bitcoin, cryptocurrency, doom scenario, Encryption, Ethereum, internet of things, iot, Knowledge Base, security

Importance of CMS Maintenance

12th May 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

CMS or Content Management System is basically a set of related programs or software that is used nowadays to create and manage our digital content, such as websites.(Techtarget) CMS basically power these websites and enable them to make the necessary amendments in them with ease and without having to provide prior knowledge. (MTM, 2016) In this article we’ll focus on why CMS Maintenance is so important. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Money, Security Tagged With: back-up, doom scenario, Knowledge Base, security, SEO, white hat SEO

The Rise of Personal Cloud Technology

5th May 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

Cloud technology is the need of the hour and most sought after tool to secure ones’ data after the security breaches being reported by reputed online companies such as Yahoo. In 2013, Yahoo reported hack in its system and over 500 million users’ accounts were affected, this is huge number to say the least. (Eugenio, 2017) This glitch in Yahoo’s decision making as not to make security of data its top priority has cost the company and its users significant loses. This should come as a fair warning to all the users and companies whose data is floating on the Internet. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet of Things, Privacy, Security Tagged With: cloud, doom scenario, Encryption, Privacy, security

IT Disasters: Cost and Preventive Measures

10th March 2017 by thom Leave a Comment

Animals have inbuilt warning system designed by nature to alert them before any natural disaster hits them. They escape the disaster area before the event happens. But human beings have no such faculty. Instead, they have been given brains to make the necessary arrangements in case they face disasters of any kind. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: doom scenario, internet reputation, Knowledge Base, security

What If something like “Millennium Bug” Would happen in 2017?

30th December 2016 by thom Leave a Comment

Millennium Bug also came to be known as Y2K. It refers to the problem arose on the turn of the century when we were in transition from Twentieth Century to the Twenty-first Century. Programmers of computers used only last two digits of the year when writing a date. During the early years of computers, the storage was very expensive proposition with up to $100 per kilobyte. So to cut this price, they only used the last two digits, which caused the whole problem. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet of Things, Security Tagged With: doom scenario

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