Melih Abdulhayoglu’s Blog | Insights on Cybersecurity

Dwell time gap

Enough is enough! Well over 20 years the industry has been selling solution to a problem, that seems to have gotten worse! Thats like selling headache pills and your headache gets worse! Something is wrong with that picture! When you get your haircut, you don’t then go home and finish it off yourself! Thats why you […]

Salesman: **taking the shiny $20 bill notes from the endusers*** oh thank you very much for the $$$$$ lovely jubbly.. Salesman: Here is the product go ahead and use it.. Enduser: Thanks.. kewl.. looks shiny.. lemme install this baby now!!! Time: passing by… Enduser: Why is my computer slow? Is it because  the Hard Disk getting […]

I didn’t know what to expect! It was a brand new architecture, brand new product, on a brand new OS. We even became the first Vista 64bit firewall! Thats how new everything we were doing was! We created, literally, world’s most powerful security software for the Vista platforms! Yes Vista is new, and our technology […]

I mean come on, you don’t need me telling you this! You get your users to trust you, then you get them to shop with you, right! Of course you know this. Its like saying, a time machine would be great, the idea is nothing new, the execution is what needs to be fleshed out. […]

Human beings are social animals. We want to connect and interact with eachother, we crave for it and when we find a new method, we grab it with both hands! I mean, take a look at the technologies that connected us throughout the history! The biggest one was a “wheel”! 🙂 Yep, Transportation is a […]

Ok.. Authentication.. then what? not the ones that reads your fingerprint etc.. we are talking about a much bigger market of Authentication! Let me start by asking few questions first 1) How many % of your time were you spending being connected to another human being using technology in 1980’s? 2)How many % of your time are […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7120251.stm Here we are, an 18 year old who made $20 millions, taking over unsuspecting user’s machine, stealing their data as well as using their machine in criminal activity to steal more data and money! Was your computer one these millions of computers turned into a Botnet? Are you a Zombie? Melih Talk Back

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 […]