Cloud Computing platform offers various on-demand services over the Internet, such as servers, software, databases, storage, networks, and many others. Many advantages of these services are causing almost every industry to adopt one or more forms of it today. Movement of traditional computing resources, services and infrastructure, to a central platform [Cloud] creates need to […]
Steganography is the act of concealing Data within a digital or physical carrier objects (e.g image, audio, video, human or text) to obscure the existence of the real data except for the intended recipient to know. This concept has been in practice for ages. In ancient times, confidential messages can be delivered by scrapping the […]
INSIDER THREATS: “Enemies within” – knowingly or unknowingly – are closely associated with exploitation of vulnerabilities or threats inside an organization. Generally, there are intentional insider threat actors and unintentional insider threat actors. However, both contribute to the ever evolving risks affecting all critical infrastructure in the public and private sectors. Insider threats actors can […]
Cyber Breaches and Effects: Breaches represents inappropriate act or intrusion with aim to expose what is supposed to be secured or secluded from third party. Cyber breaches are seen as failure to keep confidential data or private information of clients out of third party discovery without their permission. Most of these cyber breaches happen due […]
Malware Types and Signs Malware represent malicious programs that introduce abnormal behaviour in mobile or stationed computing devices. These bad software are categorised according to their intent or severity of service denial. Their presence can cause computing devices to freeze or crash often, files hijacking, mutation or deletion, email sending without users knowledge, unexplainable network […]
Privacy Settings: Every individual desire is to keep personal information within his or her chosen boundary or social circle. However, with the increasing dependence on the contemporary technology – Internet, one will wonder if such is still achievable. Reason being that those things we do not want to share outside our circle somehow sometimes escape […]
Cyber-Defense Protection of your information including your Personal data is entirely your responsibility. Technology is only a small part of Cyber Defense, you are the most important factor in attracting unnecessary breaches by exposing unsolicited personal information on the internet. – protect yourself. In the physical world we are conscious about protecting ourselves and our […]
ClickJarking – : In internet world, clicking is inevitable as it has become the order of the day. In cyberspace every click counts, a click can lead you to safe site while some can expose you to exploitation zone where your details are hijacked and harvested. Clickjacking is a user interface [UI] redress attack or a […]
Fake / Rogue Devices Rogue devices are fake or “look-alike” network names that can be planted by bad guys with intention of diverting the network traffics to their own controlled gadgets. They mimic your network access points using the same credentials and waits for you to connect to it as if it is the familiar […]
PHISHING This is most common way to scam innocent, unsuspecting victims by using social engineering tactics. In this ploy, fraudsters can impersonate legitimate company or friend to steal people’s personal data including login credentials. e.g Bogus emails use threats and a sense of urgency to scare users into doing what the attackers want. Phishing attacks […]