The war over how best to protect the US-Mexico border is severely impacting the nation’s cybersecurity and with the longest federal government shutdown in the history of this country underway, our cyber defense capabilities have taken a massive blow. While the short-term impact is severe, the long-term effects could prove even more catastrophic. According to […]

What Is GDPR and Why Should You Care As An American? What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of European Union (EU) governing consumers’ private information which was adopted by European Parliament in April 2016 and came into action on 25th May 2018. How the firms approach data protection and […]

Cryptojacking is “jacking” or the unauthorized use of a computer system to mine cryptocurrency. There are many ways by which hackers can jack a system – the most popular being, an infecting website or getting the victim to click on an unsecured link via an email which downloads the malicious crypto-mining code on to the […]

Human being is a social animal and tends to socialize by interacting and sharing with other beings. Although people enjoy sharing they also seek and cherish their right to privacy; they prefer less to no invasion of the same. Nowadays, we have become quite desensitized to news like data breaches, cyber-attacks, phishing, and logic bombs. […]

What is Quantum Computing? Quantum computers are built on the principles of quantum mechanics and are extremely powerful machines. They exploit the complex laws of nature that are always present but not always visible, or in other words, cannot be computed by our classical computers. Quantum computing can process complex algorithms very easily and briskly. […]

  What is a Bitcoin? Bitcoin has gained tremendous attention in recent times. Bitcoin is a form of cryptocurrency or digital money. Cryptocurrency can be classified as virtual currency or alternative currency to a facilitate transaction. The entire process relies on a real-time ledger of the transaction in blockchain . Bitcoin is the first kind of […]

Locky’ is a Ransomware that gained momentum in the year 2016. ‘Locky’ has been one of the most popular and alarming ransomware the world has ever seen and at one point became one of the most common forms of malware, in its own right. It has seen numerous improvements since it was first spotted in […]

On Oct 21st, a good chunk of internet was down after a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack was launched against the DNS host ‘Dyn, Inc.’ Many websites such as Twitter, Etsy, Github, Soundcloud, Spotify, Heroku, Pagerduty, Shopify, Intercom, etc., were down. The first wave of attack started at around 7 AM EST and […]