Who do you call an exceptional CIO? What qualifies a CIO to be called exceptional? The acronym CIO could represent several meaning but in this context, CIO refers to Chief Information Officer. Some organisations prefer to address their CIO as the Information Technology Director but whichever name is used, they
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Following recent news about the increasing wave of cybercrime activities across the globe, Tech Villa came up with the following takeaways: 1.    Internet fraudsters are basic but more basic are their victims/marks. Common cybercrime tactics such as phishing ought to be easily detected in the 21st century by any professional working
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With the increasing rate of computer crimes cases, forceful intrusions and infiltrations into secure Wi-Fi networks, personal computer files and information and daily cases of thefts of personal and financial information via phishing, email scams and a recent trend which involves the hacking and hijacking of social media accounts such
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Have you ever encountered a scenario where you plugged your USB disk/Flash storage disk into a virus-infected PC/laptop and as a result of the viruses and malwares in the PC/laptop, all of your files/documents in your USB flash storage were hidden? Hiding files is a favourite guile of virus code
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In our everyday lives, we all use the Internet a lot both for official and personal functions, and we encounter numerous URLs/Â web links throughout the course of a day that interest us for one reason or another. But instead of clicking each link to open the underlying page, I simply
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Imagine a scenario where you are walking through your favourite store and an item catches your attention. You pull out your smart phone and take a picture of it and a description pops up with details on the manufacturer, retail pricing and much more. Or a scenario where you traveled
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