Protect | Mitigate | Educate
Protect | Mitigate | Educate
Background Your phone, while powered on is always communicating with the network even when you are not active on it, hence a continuous emission of radiation. This is how your phone detects when you have an incoming call or message. Some sources like Berkeley News (2021) and The Guardian (2018) believe that the truth about […]
How Dangerous is your Mobile Phone Radiation and Can It Really Cause Cancer? Read More »
Here are 7 common mistakes that make it easier to hack your system, network or online account. Installing pirated software: Looking for a pirated version of a software could lead you to visit malicious websites containing scripts or malware that might automatically infect your PC once you visit them. Moreover, you might end up downloading
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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are destructive and no one wants to make a loss because their server was down and could not make sales. No one wants to lose customers because their streaming server is not always reachable when customers need it and so on. The point is Denial of service comes in different
DoS attack (Part 2) – How to protect your systems/Infrastructure against DoS and DDoS Read More »
It might be important to mention from this point that the Windows default firewall may not be adequate enough to protect your computer from intrusion or anomaly. There is usually a need to combine this with other security solutions such as a reliable anti-virus and/or a host-based intrusion detection system. Going straight to the point,
Check your Windows Firewall: protect yourself and your information from hackers. Read More »
We believe you have read part 1 of this article and have seen some of the unhealthy ways we use social media and some negative implications of this. If you have not read the Part 1 of Unhealthy use of social media, we recommend you do so as this is a summary of the 2 previous posts on the
Tips on Using social media more healthily {Part 2: Unhealthy use of Social Media} Read More »
This is a continuation of Unhealthy Use of Social Media and its negative implications. Click here to read the previous part of this article. Let’s dive right in. 5- Information about your family/personal life: did you know you can put your family also at risk by posting on your own social media? Yes, you can! However,
Unhealthy Use of Social Media {Part 1 Cont’d – Negative Implications} Read More »
No doubt, social media has helped us all in various ways. From helping us market our services, to reaching more audience, to keeping up or reconnecting with friends/family, to entertainment and the list goes on. However, as we already know, life is binary. For one side, there is a corresponding other side. Here, we will
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Layer 5 Session Hijacking: When users browse the internet, the web server sends a token to each user’s browser to identify the connection from each user. In a session hijacking attack, an attacker steals a valid session token to gain unauthorised access to a web server. Methods used by attackers to achieve this include a
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1. Subject & Object: In IT, the subject is the user or process that requests access to a system’s resource(s). The Object is the resource being requested or being acted upon. E.g. When a user needs to view a MS Word Document or a log file. The subject here would be the User while the
CISSP Tips Series -CTS 2 {Terms every security Guy should know} Read More »
Just like breaking into any infrastructure, breaking into a wireless network requires a loophole or vulnerable area. leaving these loopholes unpatched would only leave you open to attacks. There are some common loopholes when it comes to attacking a wireless device or network and this short article would be highlighting six of them, how to
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