In today’s age of technology, we see an unending surge of information, often more than we can handle, causing us to sometimes lower our defenses in cybersecurity and protection. In these situations, it becomes relatively easy for fake social media profiles to worm their way into our real-person network, and it has become a radically […]
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How much cyber hygiene do you need?
Cyber Hygiene is a term that is frequently evoked in cybersecurity circles, especially when there is a threat to our infrastructure or a data breach. Arun Vishwanath of New York believes it to be the elusive elixir of every cyber expert, that users cannot seem to have enough of. However, there is no specific recognized […]
The Troubling Implications of Weaponizing the Internet
With the aggressive onslaught of technology today, cyber experts like Arun Vishwanath of New York are predicting complete domination and war-like uses of the internet. Cyberwarfare has suddenly become a public phenomenon. There has been a significant paradigm shift in the use of the internet, from a tool of socialization and information to an instrument […]
Improving People’s Ability to Work From Home During the Pandemic
The unforeseen 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shook the entire world to the core. And if not for the blessing of technology – the Internet – we would witness the combustion of economies all around the world. The reason we have managed to stay afloat in this challenging time is our ability to be connected online from […]
Why Do We Still Teach Our Children ABC?
Arun Vishwanath of New York, studying the diffusion of innovations, asks the far too relevant question: Why do we still teach our kids ABC? Today most preschoolers already know words like Xbox and Zoom, why do we waste time teaching them words like xylophone and zebra, that have no connection to their experiences and hence […]
How to protect yourself from online shopping scams
In the 21st Century, we live in an age where there is absolutely no dearth of shopping avenues. With the endless onslaught of technology and the recent COVID-19 crisis, fashion has found platforms of the exhibition right on our laptop and mobile screens. Online shopping is something we all do, from hip teenagers keeping up […]
Why Smartphones Are More Susceptible To Social Attacks
Several research studies point to customers being substantially much more vulnerable to social attacks on their smartphones. This is the case for email-based spear phishing, spoofing attacks that try to imitate genuine webpages, as well as attacks by means of social networking sites. The reasons for this originate from the way mobile devices are designed […]
Mobile Telephony is Dying
The rapidly aggressive growth of technology today, accelerated by the pandemic, is witness to many fundamental and large-scale changes in our usage of internet-based services. Our primary business model of enabling phone calls and text messaging, also known as Mobile Telephony, is slowly dying out. There appears to be proof of the opposite, seeing surging […]
Data Security in the Cloud: Part 1
Today, most users perceive the cloud as safe online software and operating environments, online backup, storage, and file-sharing systems. From Chrome OS, Google’s App Engine, to iCloud, users rely on these systems in today’s technological age, basking in its various resourceful benefits including capabilities for predicting and reacting to adverse events, lowering the possibilities of […]