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To have a meaningful discussion regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI), one must first understand what exactly Artificial Intelligence is. What does it aim to solve? What are its constituents? When was AI invented? What kind of research and development has gone into it? What are the current and projected trends surrounding the technology? Let's try answering all of these questions. AI stands ...

Prelude You are almost about to call it a day when you hear the unusual, but equally recognizable noise made by the Security Analytics Dashboard when a critical alert is triggered. The warning displays that malware has surfaced abruptly on a system in the network, previously considered near-impenetrable. You take measures to isolate the malware within an island network. Upon ...

Working remotely is now the "new normal." As a result, The cloud market is growing day by day. There is a large spike in cloud adoption, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) being the market leader (at 32.4% of the global market), followed by Microsoft's Azure (at 17.6%), and Google's Cloud Platform (GCP) (at 6%). After the hard impact around the ...

Built in 2003 by security expert and hacker H.D. Moore, the Metasploit framework makes the job of penetration testers easier by testing potential vulnerabilities using both command-line modification and a graphical user interface (GUI). Thanks to its ease-of-use and open-source nature, Metasploit quickly found a home among black hat hackers who used it not as a testing tool but a threat ...

Free public Wi-Fi may sound like a good idea if you’re low on hot spot data or simply don’t have a phone charger, but the short term benefits do not outweigh the long term potential risks. When using public Wi-Fi, you’re trusting someone with some of your organization’s most prized information, your data. While you may not have access to the ...

Protecting one’s assets is not easy in today’s world, especially when it is in cyberspace. The asset in focus here is a domain name. Website Owners and IT Managers are continuously monitoring and looking for phishing websites with names eerily close to their domains. Why are they doing so? To protect the brand associated with their domain. Recent reports from ...

Hot Ticket: The Java Programming Jobs Outlook Java remains one of the most popular coding languages in the world. As noted by Small Business Trends, more than 80,000 jobs in the U.S. require Java coding skills, and recent survey data from the IEEE puts Java as the second-most popular coding language in the world this year. As a result, Java coding ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and learn." This principle holds for educational pursuits, and some areas of study rely heavily on practical work. One of these fields is cybersecurity. In recent history, many cybersecurity training programs began incorporating practical application into their curricula. This training was usually conducted in ...

What is Blockchain? The name derives from its structure, in which individual documents, known as blocks, connect to form a chain of blocks; these blocks can contain any type of information. Blockchains are used to record cryptocurrency transactions, including Bitcoin, and have many other applications. Every transaction added to a blockchain is validated over the Internet by multiple computers. ...

What students need to know before taking their AWS Sysops Administrator exams The AWS SysOps Administrator certification is an associate-level credential offered by one of the world leaders in public cloud computing. It typically comes after the foundational credential of AWS Cloud Practitioner. This certification goes beyond the fundamentals of working with AWS cloud environments to cover their actual operations and ...