Life, Travel and Technology

In simple terms, if technology was a battle field, hackers would be soldiers with highest ranking medals. The kind of soldiers who fight even with broken weapons. This are the kind of people whom opportunity patiently waited for them as they walked out their skills into distinction in a digital world. As a Computer Scientist, I will assure you that this level of knowledge base is not easy to accomplish. However, this is not a new scenario in the universe. Since time of old, it has always been the glory of thieves to seek and steal treasures. Difference is, hackers don’t just steal. They endeavor to outsmart the world and always fix As the cyberspace dimensions continues to grow, cyber-attacks are gradually becoming more and more sophisticated. This has pushed governments, companies and intuitions into investing in cyber security. Unfortunately, majority of the cyber security high tech-tools and strategies used simply do not measure up to the task of protecting vastly growing ne...

Although privacy is the most valuable aspect to every individual, it is now almost a thing of the past with the growth of internet. In as much as internet enable users to share or store their information online, many users are not aware of how their privacy is getting exposed. For instance, when you go to the hospital, your health information is added to your electronic health records. As you climb your education ladder, every information regarding your education is added to your electronic records. Needless to mention, every employee details in any company alongside their financial records are kept in computer devices. In addition to that, it is now the habit of almost every individual to take pictures and share them online. When you share your pictures in social media, you do not have an idea who or how many people end up with a copy of those pictures. The copies of the photographs you shared are now online in other devices other than your own. Your followers in social med...