Melih Abdulhayoglu’s Blog | Insights on Cybersecurity

To Prevent or Not to Prevent! That is the question!Yeah, is it? Yep! It is. What are you preventing? Global Warming? No Silly… the Alien invasion! That’s what we are preventing… Ok, be serious now.. come on.. tell me what is it you are talking about? Honestly, we are going to Prevent Alien Invasion! Aliens […]

Well, we all know (or should know), that there is no 100% security! (of course people might try to take this out of context and apply this to tiny subsets of an overall problem and claim it can be 100% secure but its a futile attempt as you have to look at security in a […]

Phishing, Pharming, Spyware, Viruses, Spam, Spear Phishing, is only some of the threats that banks and us the ordinary people face! Money is the easily usable, convertible, valuable material we all own (well some of us have more than the others and they should learn to let the human race benefit from it by being […]

People keep asking me: Is AV dead? Is HIPS the ultimate solution? Are we going to need to have chips surgically implanted in our…” Okay, let’s not degenerate this in the first fifty words. I’d like to start with some facts about the state of software security for PCs. 1.   The world does not protect itself […]

What is a firewall?Let’s start with the Webopedia definition: (fīr´wâl) (n.) A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, […]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/17/take-away_scam/ interesting read, and one we should learn from. in the online world, before paying, we must verify legitimacy of the site! this must be a basic rule we should all follow for a healthier internet and healthier pocket! Melih Talk Back

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=116685&WT.svl=news2_1 “The attackers used an army of bots from around the globe to hammer the servers with bogus and abnormally large DNS requests — partially formed DNS messages of over 350 bytes each, according to a report from the ISC. The majority of the traffic came from nodes in Seoul (61 percent of the attack […]

Hi Everyone http://www.comodogroup.com/products/comodo_security.html a bit of self promotion, but it does truly help end users. The more sites verified by Comodo the better for end users. Your help is greatly appreciated. Melih Talk Back

The New Dawn: Security is not Trust Despite talk about encryption and security on the Internet, we are still falling short of true identity trust assurance every time we go online.  Why?  Our current attempts of encryption only encrypt our communications, but don’t check who is on the receiver.  Thus giving users a false sense […]