Past December, South Korea-based Cryptocurrency exchange Youbit shut down its door after it was hit by a cyber-attack (for the second time in 8 months). Only a week back, a Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was hacked, costing it more than $534 million. These instances of cyber-terrorism are not just limited to the crypto-community. The number [...]
For large companies, even a minute-long server downtime can stretch losses to millions of dollars. While the extent is relatively smaller for small businesses, it’s no less critical. Such errors in the IT department can jeopardize the entire functioning – and at times, the existence – of businesses. Meaning to say, indeed there’s a [...]
Let's jump to the back-story first... As lucrative as it is, running an online-centric company isn't easy. Technologies change and glitches cause obstructions. And this eventually shoots in the way of delivering customers world-class services and experience. One of the first few "obstructions" that many businesses imminently encounter on the way is in the web [...]
Server management isn’t what it once used to be. Companies have their entire business run in digital sphere these days. Meaning, their needs and requirements are much higher. To that, the increasing instances of cyber attacks have also brought about major concerns on the security end. The infrastructure now needs to be more robust [...]
Did you know if Facebook went down, it would lose $24,420 per minute? According to a 2016 IHS report, information and communication technology downtime is costing American organizations more than $700 billion every year. These numbers and countless instances very well edify the real significance of not only leveraging the most advanced server but [...]
What do you call a server that’s slow all the time, down few times every week and is prone to hacking? A failure, of course. However, providing your online presence an impeccable uptime, stability and security are rather complex that requires a big investment of money and time. And this might not necessarily be [...]
You're probably familiar with this icon and see it a lot these days. After all, it's one of the most trending things in business circles today. In case you're among the minority and have no idea about what the icon represents then here's a bit of useful information for you. The above icon is an [...]
Petya ransomware derived its name from the movie, Golden Eye, a 1995 James Bond flick. It was first discovered in 2016, as member of encrypting ransomware. Its primary targets are Microsoft Windows-based systems. It prevents Windows from booting by corrupting the master boot record and encrypts a victim’s hard drive’s file system through the [...]
Currently, one of the hot topics in the digital world has Wannacry Ransomware. This name had been spreading like wild fire, and the reason for it was that ransomware had been the most pervasive cyber threat since 2005. Interestingly, the first ransomware in history emerged in 1989 (that's 27 years ago) by the name [...]
At the time of this writing, the for MS17-010 exploit for metasploit framework is still in development. The copy can be seen at https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_ms17_010 and https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblue This serves as a purpose in order to test if any of your windows servers are still vulnerable to this hack. Metasploit Framework is a handy tool for [...]
