Editorial
Expressions & POVs
Expert takes, practical perspectives, and opinionated security narratives.
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Thoughtful Reduction -> Simplicity -> Beautiful Experience
You drive in search of a restaurant, miles away, because it came with a recommendation, ignoring the snarling traffic and all the other challenges to get there. Is it the food or is it an experience? I believe it is an experience that we seek, and food is part of that experience. Most likely, the pe...
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Benefits and Limitations of Middleware
Have you ever felt the ease of developing any application or idea that strikes your mind? Thanks to the evolution of middleware that has helped us develop diverse software programs without perturbing ourselves about the core operating system or hardware. To secure any applications/middleware vulnera...
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The Risky Dilemma: Should you Calculate Risk Score vs Cyber Hygiene Score?
A single number to quantify your organization’s risk sounds like an interesting proposition, right? Risk Score, the idea of quantifying the entirety of your organization’s overall risk, is a popular concept in the cybersecurity industry that has been gaining traction over the years. From helping ali...
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Cyber Attacks Security Admins Should Brace For in 2022
Cyber-attacks are becoming extensively aggressive with every passing day, week, month, and year. To add fuel to the gasoline, cyberattacks in the past couple of years have become the fastest-growing criminal activity globally. The world isn’t the same anymore. We are most accustomed to accessing eve...
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Detecting and Managing Outdated Systems to Streamline Security
On Oct 10, 2017, Microsoft announced they would be ending the support for Microsoft Office 2007 ( presently outdated systems) . It was one of the popular suites developed by Microsoft; as per the developers, every Microsoft product will have a support lifecycle during which all updates, patches, and...
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Prevention – The Befuddled Concept
There are only two distinct defenses in cyber security – proactive and reactive. Proactive defense refers to actions that prevent an incident from occurring. In this sense proactive and preventive are synonymous. Reactive defense refers to any response when an attack is underway or has already done ...
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Hack VMware Remote Console (Firefox add-on) to Run Independently !!!
In firefox version 3.6 or higher, VMware Remote Console Plug-in will not load properly. To open VMWare Remote Console, there is a small hack were we can load VMware Remote Console independently without running older version of firefox. A good patch management tool can prevent such attacks.