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#Metoo, Are You Too ?

      N o , I’m not woman. And I have never experienced any kind of sexual harassment or assault. But also #Me too because I believe, not all men are neither assaulter nor potential assaulter. As a rational being, we shouldn't leap to quick judgement. It takes just one false accusation and entire social media will follow up the character assignation process. With rise of networking sites such incidents are common; bits of tweet will swell-up to bytes overnight.   If it has happened with anyone else today, you too are no exception. The ongoing phenomena of sharing sexual harassment stories encouraged by #Me Too campaign have made headline in national dailies of Nepal also. There are lots of female victims Metoo-ing these days. It good for them to speak up but there exist another side of gender suffering running parallel, that no one notices.  Court presumes that any person is entitled innocence until proven guilty but man cannot expect same con...

Think before you click

  W henever we think about web threats, issues like malware, hacking and pornography are probably the first to pop into our heads, but cyberspace is witnessing one new web menace that is quickly gaining international attention, “Crypto Jacking”. It involves the secret use of your computing device to mine crypto-cash. Anyone casually using the internet at home can be unwittingly functioning as a proxy member of a hacker’s team. Over the past few months, there has been a frightening growth in the number of websites running scripts that silently crypto jack users’ computer resources and secretly make them mine digital currency for miscreants. Easy bucks This November, a security engineer at Threat Nix claimed on his Facebook wall that OnlineKhabar, the fifth most-viewed webpage in Nepal had a script of ‘Coin Hive’ running in the background which is used to secretly takeover users’ computer resources to mine crypto-currency. After this revelation, OnlineKhabar conf...