It is a known fact: technology is always on the move for progressive changes. So as the phase of virtualization becomes more advanced, it is imperative that we also look upon the parameters of cyber risks and controls oversight, in order to maximize the benefit of virtualization. Oversight controls pertains to seeing in advance, the … Read more
Just Kidding… If you are a small business owner, you may be thinking: “Why would we get hacked? We are not such a huge company and we could not possibly have anything that the hackers want. I don’t see how a hacker can do things against us when we are very good at managing our … Read more
There is a myth that was busted(Lightning never strikes the same place twice) by the Mythbusters at stormhighway.com: (image from youtube video) As you see in the youtube video, lightning can strike the same place 50 times actually. This makes scientific sense actually, as the WVAH tv tower shows if a metal rod is the … Read more
We all heard about the Equifax computer breach. Which was entirely preventable¹ The problem was a little known piece of software called Apache struts, which had a vulnerability and thus if attacked would be the entry into the webserver at Equifax. So a software vulnerability within the web server caused a weakness, and the hackers … Read more
Instead of another post about the dangers of not patching your systems or inadequate configurations(i.e. errors in configs( that ultimately lead to ransomware and computer viruses running amok (or ‘in the wild’) One ransomware infection “in the wild” means somebody failed to upgrade their machine, failed to have enough protection. Some viruses try to infect … Read more
