Tag Archives: internet security

Is your website pwned?

/ December 15, 2017

“You just got pwned!” In the gaming world, pwn is a leetspeak term for dominating a rival. However, nowadays, pwn is associated with hacking. Being pwned is being compromised. It may

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iPhone X’s Face ID: Boon or Bane?

/ September 25, 2017

Apple launched its new iPhone X a few months after celebrating 10 years of the iPhone. The new phone model has a new facial recognition feature called Face ID. Face

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WWIII: Hacker Wars

/ September 12, 2017

Last year, black hat hackers launched a total of four billion cyber attacks. That was five times greater than the cyber attacks in 2015. Across the world, damages from cyber

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The Dark Side of the Net

/ August 28, 2017

Since the advent of the Internet, the world wide web has become an open marketplace. Businesses, personal, and social networking sites have appeared online. There are websites that are openly

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When a Software Dies…

/ August 23, 2017

Adobe announced late July that they will stop supporting Flash by the end of 2020. As we all know, Flash used to be a standard tool for web development. That

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The Vulnerable Software

/ August 18, 2017

With the recent hacking on HBO plus the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks a few weeks back, you couldn’t help but ask how vulnerable a software can be. In this

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Censorship: Is The Internet To Blame?

/ July 24, 2017

While the United Nations stands up for freedom of expression and declared “that people have the same rights online as offline”, a few countries are experiencing the opposite. While the

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4 Reasons Why Open Source Software

/ June 22, 2017

When we say open source software, it means that a programmer can alter it. Its design and source codes are available and accessible for revisions. Open source denotes open exchanges,

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Is The Web Really Secure?

/ March 6, 2017

You probably sent an email via Gmail, logged in to Facebook, or paid someone via PayPal. You’re confident that those actions were safe. They were, really. Because these sites use

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