Healthcare, Technology

Coronavirus: Where The World Got it All Wrong

Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay Coronavirus has succeeded in exposing inadequacies and shortcomings in our daily lives. As a result of the inadequacies, billions of people worldwide were under lockdown, thousands have died, and more are still dying.  Governments, businesses, and individuals have been thrown into confusion, facing an uncertain economic future. The world, whether developing or developed, was completely unprepared for COVID-19 despite our technological advancements in the areas of AI and machine learning, hence, we are suffering the consequences direly.  The coronavirus pandemic also exposed our ill-preparedness in how we have been handling our supply chains as well as security and privacy. A rundown of the following three very important sectors will bring to light where we failed and also a pointer as to what needs to be done since this may not be the last time we will be facing viral diseases. Technological advancement BlueDot, an artificial intelligence company, was able to notice that something ominous was in the offing and, therefore, went ahead to alert the world of a cluster of “unusual pneumonia” cases occurring around a market in Wuhan, China, about the midnight of December 30, 2019. The company likened the symptoms to those of the SARS, an…

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Cybersecurity: How the “New Normal” Can Impact Your Business

Image by Katie White from Pixabay  With attempts at easing lockdowns globally and an envisaged victory over the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s proper to take into cognizance the cybersecurity impact on your business. Expectations are rife that after the victory the world is heading into a “new normal” in the way society will be organized and the way business will be conducted.  While the main preoccupation of individuals as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on has been how to protect themselves and their families from the virus and how to hold on to their jobs, for business owners, it has been a different ball game altogether. You must have focused on how to beat the pandemic without doing irreversible damage to your economy in the process. This could have led you to take all sorts of decisions that included remote working, telemedicine, outsourcing, and online marketing. All these measures taken to sustain the life of your business are in order, but you probably didn’t take the cybersecurity risks involved into consideration. As the world is grappling and fighting to overcome the pandemic, it’s expected that a “new normal” way of conducting businesses and even living, will be the order of the day. Measures such as…

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How to Checkmate 5 Top Cyber Threats to Live Streaming

One area of potential cyber attacks we have been overlooking is live streaming. This may be due to the fact that most streamers focus more on the entertainment aspect and do not see any reason for concerns as regards cyber threats. It’s therefore essential to take an in-depth look into these threats and seek out ways to checkmating them. 1. Stream sniping If you play a game on Twitch, then you may have been a victim of this attack one time or the other.   Stream-sniping which is the practice of playing a game against a streamer while watching their broadcast to gain an advantage by figuring out their position is nothing new for those who play games on streaming services for large audiences. What most players are advised to do is to set a delay; this option is not really a viable solution for streamers whose livelihood depends on engaging in real-time with their audiences — and often doesn’t even prevent stream-sniping anyway. While some may say they do it for the fun of it, stream-sniping is about one thing and one thing only: winning. The lengths snipers will go to locate their targets is pretty staggering and, in some…

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