Could someone, who intentionally uses malware to commit punishable actions get away, nowadays?! Well… Sure he could! The idea and the purpose are to avoid getting robbed, not to trap and punish the robber! Always prefer the “better prevent than cure” approach when it comes to security. The background behind anyone using or…
Computer technology is the, unfathomably evolving, assisting prosthesis to societies, economies, and individuals, attempting to persevere in a world stricken by the pandemic. And yet sometimes…it – the prosthesis – does not fit all that well. Sometimes the grafts get rejected… Or the amputee rehabilitation fails – since he/she/they never lost the limb – they…
Some days ago this article from BBC fell into my attention (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505), which explains how data of positive identified COVID-19 infections, in Britain, were lost into oblivion, due to the fact that the format of “.xls” was used to gather the data. Don’t get me wrong here, this article is not a roast for the…
More than ever, infrastructure security is at risk and measures should be put in place so as to prevent or react in the … “unlikely event of a loss of cabin pressure”? “the most-likely event of a network security breach!” None of the above Well, those of you that chose “B” guessed (or even better,…
On August 28th, 00:45 GMT+2 a major attack on WordPress websites was carried out. Many WordPress sites had their admin account renamed. We managed to block the attack on its early beginning and monitor the procedure carried out using honeypots. An upgrade to all WordPress sites to latest version 5.5 hosted on our datacenters was…
Not long ago a customer of ours received an invoice from Pixsy Inc. (USA) stating that they are required to pay a fee for the use of an IPR protected photo of a Greek Salad. Greek salad or “horiatiki” salad is a popular salad in Greek cuisine generally made with slices of tomatoes, cucumbers, onion,…
As Wikipedia states: Steganography (/ˌstɛɡəˈnɒɡrəfi/ STEG-ə-NOG-rə-fee) is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. The word steganography comes from Greek steganographia, which combines the words steganós (στεγανός), meaning “covered or concealed”, and -graphia (γραφή) meaning “writing”. Ancient Greek leader Histiaeus used this practice back in…
It is a recurring phenomenon, in the IoT era, for network devices to be required to send emails and have access to SMTP functionality. Thus, most device manufacturers attempt to follow through and implement the contemporary security protocols while designing and when firmware patching is possible. However, only so much can be done by firmware…
The COVID-19 outbreak has the potential to change fundamentally the way we work. The Glocalization Organization of Asia Pacific (GoAP), in conjunction with Women in Localization and the European Union associations of Translation Companies (EUATC), organized a webinar on how companies can adapt to this brave new world. Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Topics covered:…
We experience inability to access local owa site, from time to time accessing domain file resources was experiencing outage. Among a lot articles/blog posts we followed the article https://serverfault.com/questions/413052/domain-connection-shows-as-unauthenticated Overall, we thoroughly tested: DHCP leases and reservations on DC (running the dhcp role), no multiple entries for the offending workstations Remove from Domain and join…
