Although a lot of unflattering virtual ink has been consumed to characterize hackers and many alarming things have been said about their skills, it is however incontestable that these people are extremely gifted, IT-wise. Turning the hackers’ talent toward law-abiding activities can prove a very
Cognitive computing simulates the human thought process in an artificial intelligence (cognitive) environment. Teaching a computer how to use the type of unstructured information usually employed by security analysts requires tools such as data mining, pattern recognition, human-computer
When two or more clouds (public, private) are bound together, although they remain distinct, a cloud service is called hybrid cloud . The connection between the two or more distinct clouds can concern the location, the dedicated resources or simply the cloud services, allowing aggregation,
The December 2015 Ukraine cyber-attack that took control of the Prykarpattyaoblenergo Control Center (PCC) in the Ivano-Frankivsk region serves as study-case for all cyber-security researchers concerned with possible similar incidents in the US. The said APT attack was performed via a malware
Smartphones head towards touch-based continuous authentication – a type of permanent identity validation that is also passive, since it does not hinder in any way other human-phone interactions that may be taking place during the same time. That would eliminate the risks of intrusion currently at
If the denomination of acoustic fingerprinting does not fully reveal the core concept, then maybe defining this type of fingerprinting as the mark/pattern based on a digital summary extracted from a short audio signal (summary that includes identifying, recognizing and tracking the audio source)
In a pioneering move, cyber-security expert Bruce Schneier approached the risks linked to embedded systems as early as January 2014. Embedded systems cyber-security raised a certain amount of interest in 2015, and will represent an even hotter topic in 2016. Taking a broad view on what embedded
Malvertising is the assigned term for malicious advertising , which represents the action of hijacking legitimate online advertising networks performed by malicious factors in order to inject their own malware-ridden advertisements into the said platforms. The usual shape malvertising takes is that
Let’s open our Dark Web discussion with a question: just how much of the entire Internet would you think is accessible via the usual search engines? Take a wild guess. We have conducted our own mini-inquiry based on this question, and the answers we received ranged from 20 to 40 percent. Well,
#ransomware is an actual cyber – phenomenon . First brought to attention in 1989 (the AIDS Trojan or PC Cyborg), then mentioned somewhere back in 2005 ( Trojan.Gpcoder , then the Archiveus Trojan in 2006 that combined ransomware with RSA encryption), 2014 seems to have been its year of choice – the
