Imagine someone breaking into your home, finding your jewelry, locking it in an impenetrable chest in the middle of your home, then leaving with the key after placing a ransom note. If you contact the burglar and pay the ransom note, he will give you the key to unlock the chest and get to your jewelry. Otherwise, good luck breaking the chest. You know all your valuables are there, but you...

Every security device has advantages and disadvantages and firewalls are no different. If we applied strict defensive mechanisms into our network to protect it from breach, then it might be possible that even our legitimate communication could malfunction, or if we allow entire protocol communications into our network, then it can be easily hacked by malicious users. So, we should maintain a...

What if at least you faciltate the mechanisms to recieve and pay for friends who live in #KENYA in kenya shiling and deposited on my @telebirr vice versa...

Every security device has advantages and disadvantages and firewalls are no different. If we applied strict defensive mechanisms into our network to protect it from breach, then it might be possible that even our legitimate communication could malfunction, or if we allow entire protocol communications into our network, then it can be easily hacked by malicious users. So, we should maintain a...

"Mut means 'spear' in the Nuer language, also referred to as 'Thok Nath.' As we all know what a spear is, Mut is a Nuer name. For example, Mut Gatkek is a full-stack engineering student at Mizan-Tepi University, holding a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. He is skilled in programming languages, networking, and full-stack web development. As an IT expert, we can't underestimate his...

Social engineering It is an interaction technique presenting oneself as someone aiming to access confidential or personal information. Such fraudsters might contact customers through SMS, email, social media messages or phone calls.

We are living in an era where the IT departments of businesses are still trying to fit in the Bring Your Own Device or BYOD model in a secure arena. In our article on BYOD implementations, we talked of two possibilities: one where the employees use company-owned devices and one where the organizations use employee-owned devices. The security issues are more in the latter case where...

  Everything that is sent from one computer to the another computer that is there on the network, is divided into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces of data in any form, are called 'Packets' Whether you are sending an email, or opening a web-page in your browser, or watching a movie on Netflix, or uploading a video on YouTube, everything is being sent or received in a series of...

All employers expect that networking professionals are well-versed not only with networking technologies, but also with technologies to defend it in right way. There cannot be two thoughts about that! In the modern context, if you are a network engineer, then your job is to keep network security at an optimum level by configuring and deploying right security tools to ensure that your...