Tag: security

Social media, Technology

How Online Connectivity Offers The Safest Platform to Connect With Strangers

John Ejiofor / October 14, 2020

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay  Online connectivity has given Millennials the edge to localize the digital because they are doing every daily activity in technology & innovation. With the help of social doors, we keep on scrolling, socializing, and looking for more meaningful relationships. With the advent of advancement, people think online interaction with strangers is safer and easier than doing so offline.  More and more are leaning towards digitalization, people have shifted their preferences of meeting strangers, dating, chatting, talking, or even gaining much advantage of relationship stuff. This online connectivity offers the thinner air of awkwardness you experience around them. You think of correct words without being rushed and expect to answer quickly before conveying to others.  Considering the overall advantage of online connectivity, let’s look at how it gives the safest platform to connect with strangers. Anonymous chat rooms The virtual world is much more different from the real world. How? Completely anonymous, without revealing too much information about you, and lets you chat with random strangers. These are chat rooms that can be deemed to be mysterious with many security benefits, and nothing about you will be disclosed to another person.  You can search for endless rooms that…

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Healthcare, Technology

How Privacy And Security Concerns Are Impacting Coronavirus Contact-tracing

John Ejiofor / May 21, 2020

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The world expects the telecoms to play a vital role in the control of coronavirus through contact-tracing apps that should be used to mitigate its spread, this is, however, proving to be a tough nut to crack. Contact-tracing, as seen by a lot of people, is fraught with privacy and security issues which may undermine this much-needed avenue of fighting COVID-19. We need right now to put in everything we have got scientifically into mitigating the spread of coronavirus as a body. We shouldn’t be divided, but is that really possible?   Without any doubt, telecommunications has a great role to play in contact-tracing especially where we deploy apps that can monitor the spread of the virus. However, this can only be feasible where nations, corporations, and individuals are on the same page. Incidentally, that is not what we have on the ground now. While we believe that contact-tracing will go a long way in redeeming the situation we have at hand, there are concerns from varying quarters as regards the privacy and security of the people. Fighting the coronavirus pandemic in Asia  A vivid example of the use of contact-tracing in the fight against the spread of…

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Technology

How Technology Can Help While The World Battles Coronavirus

John Ejiofor / March 16, 2020

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The continuing global spread of the coronavirus scourge is seriously putting businesses on the bad spot and it means that without any appreciable effort at terminating the spread, businesses will have to come up with out-of-the-box ideas to stay functional. The major concern everybody is facing is if the level of global advancement in technology has prepared the business world for such mammoth upheaval in the way and manner we conduct our day-to-day businesses.  Technology has to come in to help tame the spread unless we either want to all die off. This will be the case if we lack basic amenities that we need from our companies for our daily living due to closure of businesses or if we have to dare the consequences and go on as if nothing has happened in order to ensure the amenities are there.  There is no need to overemphasize the fact that businesses are in for the very real probability that urging employees to go into the office, is all we need to heighten the risk of spreading coronavirus. This is where all the latest advancements in technology will come to the front burner as the world grapples with…

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Technology

As Edge Computing Gains Steam, We Must Balance Benefits With Security Risks

John Ejiofor / November 11, 2019

The overriding premise behind setting up a business is to make handsome ROI and this occasions cutting unnecessary costs. Edge computing comes on this basis to shift focus more to the source of data as a way of improving response times and saving bandwidth. Since you have to move closer to the source of data, there is always a high probability of jettisoning your otherwise well-articulated security measures. What most businesses fail to put into consideration is the absolute need to balance the accruable benefits with the potent security risks. If you are involved in the ongoing back and forth between centralized and decentralized IT, you must have begun to see the limitations of a centralized IT. You probably have also started questioning the rationale behind having hundreds or thousands of industry-standard servers running a host of applications in consolidated data centers.  This is not helped by having new types of workloads and distributed computing. If you sum up all of these with the fast pace of IoT, you definitely have a good cause for the observable rise in edge computing. The new realization now is that processing at the edge brings compute closer to data accumulation and hence the…

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Technology

Backdoor Encryption, An assault on Privacy

John Ejiofor / October 11, 2019

Facebook has certainly had its fair share of problems over the years, right from the Cambridge Analytica scandals to a host of other privacy issue related problems, which led to a lot of people deleting their accounts from the platform. Now that they have come up with a beautiful one, the end-to-end encryption that everybody should applaud, it’s a huge surprise that there is a concerted effort to stab privacy in the back through backdoor encryption. Salvos have been coming from all corners at end-to-end encryption. The surprising aspect of the whole thing is that these reactions are coming from largely unexpected quarters, that is those you thought would be very happy to fight cybercrime to a standstill.  The U.S. Attorney General William Barr in a reaction to the technology world says, “If the cops and Feds can’t read people’s encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit.” FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is not left out in the call for a backdoor, saying that the cops and Feds should be able to spy on end-to-end encrypted chats and the like. Also noteworthy is the fact that UK home secretary Priti Patel, US attorney general…

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Technology

Steps You Must Take to be Free From Botnets

John Ejiofor / August 21, 2019

Botnets have for a very long time been known as the workhorses of the Internet. You definitely have been using them to as connected computer to enhance the performance of a whole lot of repetitive tasks to keep your websites going.  A lot of businesses use them in connection with Internet Relay Chat. Undoubtedly, when used in this manner, botnets are absolutely legal and overwhelmingly beneficial to maintaining a smooth user experience on the Internet. The story is, however, changing more than you can think of and devastatingly so. Botnets are presently being devised to gain access to your machine through some piece of malicious coding. The resultant effect in this kind of scenario is that your machine is directly hacked. When this is not the case, a “spider” (a program that crawls the Internet looking for holes in security to exploit) is made to do the hacking automatically. This is a very serious situation that you need to take care of. Taking into consideration that the internet of things (IoT) will mark the next major revolution for mankind, it becomes of utmost importance that we don’t allow anything that will jeopardize the lives of the greater majority of people.…

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