by Smidcloud | Jan 30, 2018 | Cybersecurity breaches and incidents, Security
Concerns have been shown by the US military offices against Strava, a fitness application, which offers a heat map feature. This feature has resulted in exposing the important military locations of the United States all around the world. Earlier in November of 2017,...
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 | 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...
