Every cyber geek know this fact that 2020 has been the most promising year for bad actors. The number of cyberattacks have increased drastically this year if we compare from any other year in the last decade or century. In cybersecurity industry, we all see the largest DDOS attacks ranging upto 809 million packets per second recorded by Akamai. Also there are lots of other cyberattacks which took place, some due to vulnerabilities in systems, and some due to social engineering. There are lots of data dumps, breaches and security bypass in this outbreak. The cost of data breaches is one of the most significant factors why most organizations, corporates…
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RESEARCHERS ACHIEVED AN INTERNET SPEED WHICH CAN DOWNLOAD WHOLE NETFLIX CONTENT IN LESS THAN A SECOND
To live in this fast moving world, we all have to sync ourselves with the growing technology and adapt changes as soon as we can. There were times when we want a machine to calculate some arithmetic operations, it takes days to design an algorithm but now it just a play of fraction of seconds. The biggest advancement of technology that we can see around is the introduction of bots in 21st century. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are that advanced that they have created a kind of ambiguity in humans’ mind. Therefore, it is correct to say: “Humans are following bots, Bots are following technology”. If we…
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MIRAI BOTNET IS TASTING WEAK PASSWORD PROTECTED LINUX SERVERS. HOW IS YOURS?
In the last 5 years, the botnet which made its appearance in every sector, infecting system with its own made custom malware is the Mirai Botnet. This botnet is known for launching large scale DDOS attacks and if still you don’t know about it and your organization architecture is based on Linux platforms with weak security, you might be their next target in their botnet attacks. In today’s time, every sector either it is food industry or a normal service provider, everyone is going digital. For going digital, the basic need for every startup is to maintain a team of IT professionals that can handle all the frontend and backend…
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DURI CAMPAIGNERS ARE USING HTML SMUGGLING ATTACK TO DELIVER MALWARE
To talk with computer, you need to talk in its language. Computers can’t understand your mother tongue and thus we have to understand it to use it for our tasks. There were many computer scientists who devoted all their life to understand computers, many even died exploring computer, but the computer technology is the only thing which is getting advanced day by day. As it is going advanced, the security infrastructure of technology is getting more complex to handle because there are many experts available but not every expert is working for welfare. There are still many experts who are under the hood and are regularly working to exploit your…
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MEET THIS NEW BORN INFOSTEALER IN RUSSIA NAMED PURPLEWAVE
We all know that in this outbreak, we all have suffered a lot. Someone who knows about technology also knows that everyone’s privacy on the internet has been breached in someway, whether by the government or cyber criminals or the reputed brands. It is a different fact that experts know the way to protect themselves and their loved ones and thus are successful to escape from the breaches but for a normal guy, still it is a bitter truth that the word “privacy” is now the only shit to say our data is secure. Trackers and infostealers are everywhere either behind us or ahead of us. Exceptions are always there…
