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Cyber security is an arms race between offensive and defensive capabilities, and unfortunately, we are losing this battle. As users, we want better technology doing cooler things enabling us to do more. But the more we have, the more we rely on it,  and the more complex these systems become. Complexity is the enemy of security. In fact, complexity is a nemesis of security, which is one of the main reasons why we’re losing this arms race. I’m going to get you up to speed on security bugs and vulnerabilities and how they affect your security. A security bug and a vulnerability are actually the same thing. So they’re synonyms for each other. So if I say security bug or vulnerability, it’s the same thing. And it’s an error. It’s an error written into software that creates a potential for a threat agent, such as a hacker, to exploit it. So an example might be the recent Heartbleed bug which you may have heard about because it was on mainstream news. This is a bug in something ...

Spyware have its main purpose is to gather information and send it back to the attacker, well, to spy. The attackers don’t generally want to cause damage directly, but want to compromise your privacy and anonymity based on some agenda they’ve got. Spyware is intelligence gathering malware. For example, a rootkit can also be a Trojan horse, someone could call spyware a virus. The point is just to understand the variants that exist and the possible purpose of the malware.  Adware , which some people consider it to be a form of spyware. Is undesirable software that forces advertisement on you. There are millions of different variants of this. One of the most annoying and destructive form of adware is called Cool Web Search. You may even have encountered it yourself, but there’s nothing cool about it at all. Know Your Enemy - The Current Threat and Vulnerability Landscape It hijacks your default search engine, it ...

Having taken over our daily communications almost entirely, the web is constantly evolving and expanding. With this continuous expansion, it provides you with more and more data which you consume daily. However, all the information that appears on the web, every like, subscription, tweet, downloaded video or uploaded vlog, making all of this possible requires a highly sophisticated computational process working behind it, constantly. The smooth functioning of the web has more to it than just the computational procedure. Current web services operate through a solid and intricate network of RAM, containers, database engines as well as machine learning skills. Importance Of Cloud Technology Due to continuous technological growth and advancements, the demand for cloud computing services is increasing, too. It has become essential for individuals and businesses to have a better storage space with increased security and faster service. There is no doubt about the fact that Goog...

What is Face Detection? The definition of face detection refers to computer technology that is able to identify the presence of people’s faces within digital images. In order to work, face detection applications use machine learning and formulas known as algorithms to detecting human faces within larger images. These larger images might contain numerous objects that aren’t faces such as landscapes, buildings and other parts of humans (e.g. legs, shoulders and arms). Face detection is a broader term than face recognition. Face detection just means that a system is able to identify that there is a human face present in an image or video. Face detection has several applications, only one of which is facial recognition. Face detection can also be used to auto focus cameras. And it can be used to count how many people have entered a particular area. It can even be used for marketing purposes. For example, advertisements can be displayed the moment a face is recognized. Face reco...

A chatbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) software that can simulate a conversation (or a chat) with a user in natural language through messaging applications, websites, mobile apps or through the telephone.  A chatbot is often described as one of the most advanced and promising expressions of interaction between humans and machines. However, from a technological point of view, a chatbot only represents the natural evolution of a Question Answering system leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP). The ability to identify the user’s intent and extract data and relevant entities contained in the user’s request is the first condition and the most relevant step at the core of a chatbot: If you are not able to correctly understand the user’s request, you won’t be able to provide the correct answer. Returning the response: once the user’s intent has been identified, the chatbot must provide the most appropriate response for the user’s request. The answer may be: ...

Image recognition is one of the features that is deployed in most modern devices and programs. The feature has a wide range of applications, the most common one being in security systems. It enables devices to recognize the identity of a person or object just by its image. Face recognition is a product of image recognition. Best Programming Language For Image Recognition 1. Matlab                                             Matlab is an independent programming language that has its own framework and IDE which come in a more robust workspace. The programming language comes with a broad range of tools that you can use to handle more technical programming tasks with ease. Image recognition and face processing are some of the tasks that can be handled by Matlab. Matlab offers an array of built-in tools for matrix calculation. It is imperative to note that image recogni...

Although technology has overall made life easier, it has made things a lot less private. As a result, you need to be extra careful when you are browsing online, as it very difficult to maintain privacy out there. It is even possible that your ISP or VPN provider is maintaining a log of everything that you do online. So, how do we protect our online privacy? Brass Horns Communications, a UK-based non-profit internet service provider that focuses on privacy and anti-surveillance services, has an answer for this. The company is currently beta-testing a SIM card that will automatically route your data through Tor, thereby securing online privacy and evading surveillance. For those unaware, Tor (originally known as The Onion Router) is a free piece of software for enabling anonymous communication. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, volunteer-operated network of computers around the world to hide a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or tr...