Donald Hoxhaj

Shi,

I am surprised to see companies like Microsoft unable to test the patches even before releasing them for consumers around the world. Usually these issues are taken place through cross-device testing way in advance before releasing. I am still unsure what drastic effects has the recent Meltdown Patch has done to systems and what breaches…[Read more]

Scott,
Nice article to ponder upon how safe our windows systems are. More than 30% organizations in the fortune companies use Windows Servers to run their internal systems and I am surprised how this was being allowed to be shipped even after the vulnerability was discovered by Chinese researchers. Microsoft should have rather immediately patched…[Read more]

Shi,

Definitely a good article to read and ponder on the safety of passwords. This is bewildering to see the exposure of more than 130,000 passwords. What is not understood is that while companies do take a good amount of measure to inform the customers about the password breach, they fail to communicate on the future steps that it’s going to…[Read more]

Satwika,

Pretty useful information on the pros and cons of Google Cloud platform. Certainly one can make use before hosting their services. The Cons are even more interesting because that is something that we don’t find on the internet very easily and hundreds of information only makes it more confusing. I feel Google Cloud is definitely…[Read more]

I do have my reservations here, while accepting the fact that congress leaders did look blank face to understand how tech works. However I feel here that being a CEO, Mark had no clue what questions were being asked. As a CEO who is responsible for safeguarging data of more than 2 billion people on the planet, it is not acceptable to pass on the…[Read more]

Joseph,
Quite interesting article to read. It is well known that automation will be the future and is only capable of extracting critica information at a much faster rate. It would be interesting to see how anti-theft systems can prevent such automated attacks through different means.

Russian hacks have particularly grown in the last 2 years and this is quite alarming for sure. Good news is that the main financial platform i.e. the e-commerce seems to be unaffected and this could probably be an indication that customer data would not have been stolen. There is a serious need to have more strict regulations with respect to such…[Read more]

Quite an interesting article though. This is definitely one of the breakthroughs as I would like to say as this would allow lesser management of passwords and users can easily login using either of single or multi-factor authentication protocols. The only solution for this is to partner with hardware manufacturing companies to integrate this in…[Read more]

Elizabeth,
I really enjoyed reading this article and was quite surprised with the way the attacks were conducted on Natural gas pipeline. I believe public resources, especially government aided, are far more protected than private organizations data. While it’s still unsure whether the customer data was stolen or not, I would certainly not like…[Read more]

his is absolutely incredible. I wonder how many users have already used the fake antivirus application and how many systems have already been attacked with this. North Korea’s involvement is even more shocking considering that it is already cornered by most countries for its economic decisions.

This is quite an interesting article Joseph. I think this gives a lot of information on how Linux can be beneficial from the security point of view. Having open source itself has its own challenges, something that has not been discussed here. The article also says that Open-source software is built with code that is publicly accessible. This is…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing the article. This is pretty scary and quite concerning too especially because of the problems in the maritime waters. This type of cross-country digital hacks have become quite common now a days where countries are willing to do anything to get data for their own benefit. It is high time that countries have strong defense…[Read more]

Shi,
Quite an interesting article that talks about how Memcached servers can be hacked using large DDoS attacks. As far as I know, prevention against DDoS is still under research and in fact many organizations still do not have the best practices to prevent such attacks. Such situations can only be avoided by having a centralized monitoring and…[Read more]

Agree with the article Matt. IoT in another 5-10 years is going to open up security vulnerabilities for many connected devices. With the advancement in space travel and GPS navigation used by majority of people today in travel and tracking, it will surely open another window of opportunity for hackers. I remember sometime back when there was a…[Read more]

Glad that you brought up this article in a time when cyber-crime is not only impacting organizations but individuals too. I read an article 3 days back that states that more than 57% Americans or even more are impacted by cyber-crime each year and the result of the attacks have amounted to more than $10 million. Credit cards I feel are soon going…[Read more]

This is amazing and will change the entire browsing experience itself. This was absolutely required for many years and no company could really identify this and started using advanced firewall and security standards, which ultimately broke under brute force or DDoS. Veil service I feel will eat up the business of many other companies that are into…[Read more]

I definitely agree to this article that medical industry needs an overhaul and a complete change in the way security is handled at different levels. Handling alone might not be useful and all stakeholders including governments, doctors, and cyber experts need to come together to form a partnership on implementation of cyber security.

That’s quite interesting Christie to see this percentage, though I still doubt this to be far lesser, considering that most senior level professionals in organizations do have a keen knack of latest security standards in IT Infrastructure. I see that many companies fail to implement cyber standards either because of cost factors or because of…[Read more]

This is definitely scary Jonathan for sure. Russia and America anyhow do not have good ties and political standpoint is weak. With the recent Trump election issues, Russia has taken protective stand against cyber-attacks of any kind. However the need of the hour is to have bilateral talks on security of the data on the internet and the limits on…[Read more]