Modern day cold-war  (Cyber-Warfare)

Modern day cold-war (Cyber-Warfare)

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Have you ever wondered how technology could disrupt your personal space ? The ever growing technology comes with benefits as well as drawbacks same as like many other things in life. if you are using social media or internet in general you are exposing data to who knows whom. we don't know who is in control of our data companies like amazon, google, walmart have our personnel data like our choices and tastes in different product ever wonder how amazon show you the exact relevant products which you are looking for ? or youtube suggesting videos you might like.

The good :- While the awareness around cybersecurity is spreading decently and corporates are hiring professionals to protect their infrastructure and following traits like CIA (Confidentiality Integrity Authorization) on the other hand people and masses are unaware of it. people don't even know cambridge analytica case . It was the massive and most upfront miss-use of data that came to light They manipulated U.S presidential election using facebook to alter peoples opinion just with the help of social media content. we need to be more aware and vigilant about this things.

The bad:- People always tend to use the same password again and again which is not even remotely good practice you'd be surprise to know how many people just use password depending on their or their loved ones birthday or name or favorite movie. Hackers just need to do little tweaking for 2-3 minutes in order to crack your password. Yes! it's that simple with modern day hacking tools, once they've cracked your password and you've used it everywhere you are literally doomed they will have access to all your private Data they can retrieve data through Gmail re-verification and so on.

The worst:- Global maritime giant Mersk which is a shipping company witnessed a major catastrophic attack on it's Infrastructure on 2017 from a malware called notPetya it was a nasty malware which affected lakhs of unpatched or outdated windows operating systems and as you might've guessed the company was not at all prepared for cyber threats. it almost lost all of its data entire (DHCP) and active directory was lost not only that that malware further disrupted remote server which were located on other countries wiping every single data and halting the worlds one of the most biggest shipping conglomerate and disrupting shipping activities. Luckyly one of the server was not affected which was located in Africa only because there was a power-cut and a employee was immediately sent to UK headquarters straight from Africa carrying the companies whole future in his hands. This is the level of severity around cybersecurity Imagine any public Infrastructure or government defence department getting affected by such malware.

The Warfare Countries like USA and Russia were famous for hacking their way out in each others infrastructure but now countries like China, North korea, Ukraine and Israel are all part of this game conducting cyber espionages India is way behind in this game If we want to defend our stands against communist countries like china we have to upskill our way out of this if not we might face constant threat of our infrastructure being attacked.