We recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Arun Vishwanath from his office in Buffalo, New York and discuss some of the recent high-profile security breaches and some of the urgent cyber security threats faced by governments and businesses. Can you tell us about the Colonial Pipeline breach and how it could have been prevented? […]
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Tackling Middle East Misinformation on Social Media Is Like Playing Whack-A-Mole, Says Expert Dr. Arun Vishwanath
As tensions continue to flare between Israelis and Palestinians, social media appears to be fanning the flames of the conflict and an uptick in antisemitic hate crimes through the spread of misinformation. Cybersecurity expert Dr. Arun Vishwanath talked to Cheddar about how platforms have a responsibility to tackle the issue but admits that moderation is […]
Why Buffalo, New York, is a leading start-up city and the future of cyber security
My April 2021 interview with Kristen Staci that appeared in Influencive: Your work at the University of Buffalo brought you international recognition as an expert in cyber security. What are you doing now? I still live and work in Buffalo, New York, and love the city! I was a tenured professor at the University at […]
How does Excelsior Pass actually work?
James from Amherst says he was fully vaccinated at a CVS in February. After hearing the calls from the state, he tried setting up the Excelsior Pass, only to be told that they could not confirm his vaccination. “It’s been over two months since my shot and I’ve been trying to see if there is […]
Ransomware Attack on Buffalo Public Schools in Buffalo, New York
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic around the world has accelerated an already aggressively expanding technological age that we live in. Almost everything we do from research, official work, financial transactions, to shopping and entertainment, is all dependent on the internet. The sheer indispensability of online software in our daily life today is reason enough for us […]
Who Is To Blame For Cyber Attacks?
Today’s technological age, with the aggressively expanding cyberspace, is day by day increasing our dependency on the online cyber experience. The 2020 pandemic has only accelerated an already increasingly virtual world we live in. This has inevitably expanded the cyber challenges we are facing as well; in 2013, the Department of Defence and some US […]
Fighting Cyber Crime with Smarter Habits
In today’s expanding technological age, Cyber Crime has become a burning issue. It is increasingly becoming a common phenomenon which many experts and hackers can easily resort to. Hackers today have it really easy and convenient, where they can gain access to our computers and networking systems using really simple phishing techniques. They prey on […]
Time to rethink apps security
Tech Wizard Steve Jobs didn’t understand the potential of third-party mobile apps that turned mobile phones into smartphones, instead advocating the usage of mobile web-pages accessed through iPhone’s Safari browser. Fast-forwarding to now, across Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, we see a flood of apps for everything, from turning your camera flash into a flashlight, controlling […]
Cybersecurity’s weakest link: humans
The conversation around Cybersecurity has taken precedence in the technological age among cyber experts like Arun Vishwanath of New York. And the recent burning issue in cybersecurity is Spearphishing Attacks. Incidents like the 2016 breach that compromised 20 million federal employee records at the Office Personnel Management, and the US ransomware attacks that in three […]
Its Not Just Fake News, Facebook and Twitter! It’s the Internet’s Dark Triad We Should Be Worried About.
Today’s technological age, with the incessant flood of information, is inevitably victim to malicious content in the form of fake profiles and fake news on social media. The rapid dissemination of news across the world has woken us up to the realization that such malicious incidents are occurring every day, giving us an intimation that […]