by Smidcloud | Jan 18, 2018 | Cybersecurity breaches and incidents
Year 2017 is marked as the year of doom for cybersecurity specialists. This year, some of the major infrastructures in the corporate world of Unites States of America got struck with dreadful blows. Officials were left in bewilderment and disbelief when the latest...
by Smidcloud | Jan 15, 2018 | Cybersecurity breaches and incidents, Security
Last year was a real blast for cyber security criminals. Leading cyber-criminal conducts were carried out such as the noteworthy incident of Equifax, losing data worth millions, Wannacry ransomware attack which infected more than 400,000 machines across 150 countries,...
by Smidcloud | Jan 10, 2018 | Security
How exactly were Meltdown and Spectre Identified? It was one fine weekend morning when three researchers from Graz’s university sat on their computer workspaces and started working on their codes. Earlier that week, the trio came up with an idea about creating a...
by Smidcloud | Nov 13, 2017 | Cybersecurity breaches and incidents
The year 2017 introduced a lot of threats into the technology world. From cloud infrastructures to private data centers, nothing can be considered fully secure. One of the major threat to the Internet environment is malware. These are trained bots or software tweaks...
by Smidcloud | Oct 30, 2017 | Cybersecurity breaches and incidents
The KRACK (Key Reinstallation) attack takes advantage of a security flaw found in the WPA2 protocol. This is the protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. An attacker within range of a victim’s Wi-Fi can exploit these weaknesses using KRACK; this...
