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The last time I wrote on this blog, a phishing email gave itself away with bad grammar, a strange sender address and a "Dear Customer" greeting. That was 2015. Today the same scam can arrive in flawless English, quote your manager's name, and be followed by a phone call in a voice that sounds exactly like someone you trust. Hackup's is back, and I can't think of a better comeback topic. AI has made scams cheaper, faster and far more convincing. The good news is that the defence is still simple, as long as you change what you look for. I've spent the last 11 years in software testing and QA leadership. My job is to assume something is broken until it proves otherwise. That habit, it turns out, is the best anti-scam tool I know. Let me show you how to use it. Why AI Phishing Is a Different Game in 2026 The numbers are moving in the wrong direction. The Anti-Phishing Working Group's Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q2 2026 fo...

Artificial Intelligence: An Economic Disaster? Effect on Common Man and Middle Class. Previously we talked about Artificial Intelligence and it's good and bad factors, that will possiblly be the outcome of using them for various application across the globe. In this Post However, the Focus is on how it will affect the Common man, the Middle Class and the Lower Class of the society. First of all, let us just classify what and of whom are we actually talking about. The middle class is the service class, the guys who do a job in some company as an IT professional, accountant, Manager, Customer Support executives including the jobs in BPO and KPO that provides work services(inbound and outbound calls). And by the lower class, we mean Construction Workers, Labours and Small business Workers who do earn for a day and survival. And the upper class is the businessman tycoons and investors who are already rich, have a good reputation, capital, and running factories. Genera...

Full Artificial Intelligence: Good or Bad As we know Artificial intelligence is the near future the question arises is, can we depend on it? Is it good for us? Well, many people and scientists have their theories about this. Some say it is a safe practice and it should work with ease and with no  faults, some believe it to be more dangerous and will lead to human eradication. I prefer a different approach. According to me it is an inevitable truth. We have to make it work someday and it’s going to happen anyway no matter how much we try to resist. That’s what progress is all about. We have to make artificial intelligent programs that are fully operate able on their own. So, how much liberty to give to these artificially intelligent self-thinking bots? Make them join military programs carrying RPG launcher and Rockets? The GOOD possibilities: Talking about Military application. These Artificially intelligent systems can think on their own and we believe to have progr...

Artificial Intelligence: A Step Next? Artificial intelligence as we all know is the near future of technology. It is very much achieved, we have been working on partial artificially intelligent models and fully artificially intelligent models that are experimental. For Non-Technical readers, Artificial Intelligence is a system in which we provide self-deciding capability to the machine to perform work that we want it to do. Like it senses through its skin, i.e. its sensors, analysis the object and performs the task. When it all started we were more concerned with the idea of providing knowledge enough to make work specific robots. Like for instance a robot was built to catch balls, well, Tennis balls to be accurate. Thus the Artificial Intelligent System was a great undeveloped world with endless possibilities just like humans we have no limits to think. But the question is that is it the future we see in movies and expect everything to be working by itself. Is this the Future?...

The OSI Security Architecture As Introduced earlier to the OSI security Architecture in previous Blog Posts http://hackups.blogspot.in/2014/05/security-attacks-osi-security.html and a follow up to the Security Attacks post http://hackups.blogspot.in/2014/05/computer-security-overview.html . SECURITY MECHANISM Security mechanisms are used to implement security  services. A process (or a device incorporating such a process) that is Designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security Attack . There is no single mechanism that will support all the services required. However ,one particular element underlies many of the security mechanisms in use and that Element is Cryptographic Techniques.  Under Security Mechanisms (X.800) the following two main mechanisms are known: SPECIFIC SECURITY MECHANISMS: The Specific Security Mechanisms include the following  Encipherment, Data signatures, Access control, Data Integrity, Authentication Exchang...

The OSI Security Architecture As Introduced earlier to the OSI security Architecture in previous Blog Post http://hackups.blogspot.in/2014/05/computer-security-overview.html ·         Security Attack:  Any action that compromises the security of information owned by an organization ·         Security Mechanism:  A process (or a device incorporating such a process) that is Designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security Attack. ·         Security Services:  A processing or communication service that enhances the security of the data processing systems and the information transfers of an organization. The services are intended to counter security attacks, and They make use of one or more security mechanisms to provide the services. SECURITY ATTACKS Useful way of classifying security attacks is in terms of Passive and Ac...