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They know what you downloaded last summer

How would you react if someone showed you all that you have been downloading using torrents?

Moments ago I was doing regular maintenance on my website and updated the latest SecurePress plugin to 2.0.2 and it crashed my website!

Read on for solution to be tried out in such cases with buggy plugins.

Cloud Infographic 2011

An overview of what the enterprises are thinking of cloud adoption.
Its nice to see that only 20% respondents have no plans to develop a cloud computing strategy, but there was a clear preference for using dedicated hardware instead of public cloud infrastructure.
Virtualization is very popular, and the biggest benefit respondents perceive in cloud computing was hardware savings.

Corporate’s view of security

Security is a major concern for big corporations as they deal with very sensitive information like customer’s social security numbers, bank credentials, addresses etc. They need to have robust security policies to safeguard this sensitive information apart from their own classified data, from the real world threats which exist both internally and externally.

But it is unfortunate to realize that most companies look at security as a burden and do not treat it as their duty, they regard security as wastage of time, energy and resources. They fail to look at it as a business enabler or even as a business facilitator. They totally disregard the risk & vulnerability assessment reports from their security officers and deny any funds to mitigate the risks recommended by them. There is an… Read More | 2 Comments

Cyberwarfare

For most of the people this is like an abstract topic but in reality some countries are already prepared for this attack vector, if I may call it that.
So what does this mean?
It means that in a war type scenario, countries have to lookout for more than land, air and water threats, and most would agree that this would be the most damaging of them all; it could cripple the country in such a way that most of the population wont even be aware of the fact that they have already been attacked.
How is that possible you may think.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyFyIwYK_w&feature=related

After a decade of several security reasearches we have been able to eliminate most of the clever attacks which the black hats put out in… Read More