What is Clickjacking?
Clickjacking is an attack that tricks a user into clicking a webpage element that is invisible or disguised as another element. Users think they are clicking on a legitimate element but in reality, they are clicking on something potentially dangerous. Clickjacking is done by displaying an invisible page or HTML element, inside an iframe, on […]
The Ethical Problem of Artificial Intelligence — Has Utah Gone Too Far With Public Safety with their AI initiative?
The state of Utah has given Banjo, an artificial intelligence company, access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. Banjo said they are combining this data with social media, satellites, and other apps to detect real-world anomalies. Banjo is trying to […]
Coping With Terrible Customer Service — How Cytrus Logic is Changing Customer Service in the Technology Industry
Everyone goes through the dreaded scenario, you need something from a company and you call them only to keep pressing numbers to get where you need to be. Worse still, you spend the first two minutes yelling “representative” into the phone. Once you actually get a human being on the phone they put you on […]
Hardening Security Improvements — How to add Security Headers to your Website.
Cytrus Logic regularly does security scans of websites for statistical purposes. In almost 85% of the scans, there are no security headers installed on the sites we scan. These scans allow us to create statistics and create tools and procedures to better protect our clients and their sites from malicious code and exploits. Security headers […]
Website Security Statistics 02/24/2020 — Marketing and Design Agencies
Last week we scanned 300 marketing and ad agency websites using our Website Safeguard technology. The scan was performed as an external scan. The results show a serious problem with the sites scanned. The Scan showed that 35% of the site scanned had critical errors in the following areas: Critical Errors 2% OpenSSL out of […]
Roya Mahboob — inspiring women programmers in Afghanistan
Today I had the pleasure of listening to Roya Mahboob at the Freedom Forum at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City. I had been looking forward to meeting her for some time. She’s become a hero of mine for the work she has done in Afghanistan. While most people see Afghanistan as a war-torn country […]
3 web security reminders from the recent Huawei Indictment
The department of Justice announced yesterday that they have indicted Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets. The justice department said in a statement that The 16-count superseding indictment also adds a charge of conspiracy to steal trade secrets stemming from the China-based company’s alleged long-running practice […]
What being an introvert taught me about business and automation
Being an introvert is not easy sometimes. As an introvert, I love to focus intensely on whatever I’m doing and get completely absorbed in the task at hand.I can work night and day non-stop on an algorithm to make it not only work perfectly but also be elegant in simplicity. I love to problem solve […]
WordPress gets hacked all the time
If there is one thing we love here at Cytrus Logic it is working on hacked sites. Just got done with a WordPress site that was hacked using a very simple exploit. A file was uploaded to a directory that did not have the right permissions. A couple of back-doors were put in so that […]
Why I Abandoned Corporate Culture
There is a phrase by a well respected religious leader Gordon B. Hinkley that once said: “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.” When I first started my company Cytrus Logic I was enduring. I was naive. I was an excellent programmer but I had to learn the business. So I did what I thought […]