The internet has again suffered a hiccup when the untimely death of “The King of Pop”, sent millions to file query’s on the web’s most trusted source for quick searches, Google News. The problem, the system treated the mass query as a DoS attack and barred itself shut, denying the hungry for news of their [...]
Read More..>>Still considered to be the largest security threat the world over, human nature defies explanation even with terabyte calculations to predict what people would do and how they would react to stimuli. The internet has suffered a lot mainly due to human error, failure of equipment that was already way past their prime, cables dug [...]
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Comments(0) The US Government has finally toughened it’s stance and taken the advise of some security experts on how to bets address cyber-security to bolster their ability to deal with the rising threat from the internet that has been plaguing the many government servers and computers deployed all over the globe. They hired a black-hat, Jeff [...]
Read More..>>The internet has changed the lives of all people on earth, getting news out faster than traditional media, reaching out to for social functions and many more. It has also become the battle ground between the people who aim to gain information and those who own them, with the people who protect us from such [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Flash drives are the new (and more buffed up) versions of the floppy disks of old. Unfortunately, portable drives are also one of the major contributors to the transfer or viruses, malware, worms, trojans, and all sorts of unpleasant elements from system to system.
Especially when you’re away from your system (which, we’re assuming has [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Conspiracy theorists love the coming of such events, where they predict the end of the world. Or at least the internet as we know it, for the much studied conficker worm is again set to awaken this April Fools which is a couple of months away yet people are beginning to talk about the possible [...]
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Today is a bad day for us to browse the internet unarmed with knowledge. That is because hackers have found a new place to burn. YouTube. Some of the videos in Youtube contain links to malicious pages, or links that makes you download a malware, that allows hackers to save your keystrokes, [...]