How Safe Are You?

I woke up this morning with one simple question. And since then I have been trying to figure it all out and why on earth would such thought come to my mind when they are myriad of issues affecting the world especially Nigeria.

The issues with Nigeria cannot be over emphasized but like many other nations no one is free from one catastrophic situation or the other. Either from terrorism to corruption or cyber attacks to identity theft,  there seems to be something affecting different countries either developing or developed. Is anyone really 100% safe? Do we know what the next attack will be? Well the truth is you can't answer all these questions except you are some kind of supernatural being.

Today, everything is connected to the internet. We even do have self driving cars. From light bulbs to refrigerators everything can be connected to the internet and be remotely controlled from afar.  So back to the question i woke up with. "How safe are we?" This came to me out of the blue but in reality this is the situation we are faced with in our everyday lives.

Today we have billions of devices connected to the internet and these devices are what we use on our day to day activities. With hackers roaming about the internet, working on developing tools and ways to exploit weakness on our network systems and devices we are all left with this simple question.

The statements come hot on the heels of the "WannaCry" virus attack which left critical organisations in over 150 countries reeling from the effects of the malicious "ransomware".

Targeting Microsoft Windows operating systems, the software blocked access to computer systems and demanded that victims pay money via the crypto currency bitcoin in return for full use of their own computers once again. 

The attack left many wondering how vulnerable our systems are to similar attacks and whether this would lead to a rise in the importance of cyber insurance and security.

The answer is we are not completely safe. But we can protect ourselves from hackers by being security concious from using strong passwords in all our online accounts, logging out after usage, defending ourselves with antivirus and Anti-malware and always making sure all our apps and systems are updated to the recent version. This can give us a sense of security.
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