Rauf's Blog on Cyber-Security

As time progresses, the world is becoming much more tech dependent than ever before, and thus we should dedicate on educating more professionals and more importantly a tech-savvy and educated public, and invest more on our needs in the field of cyber security. Although IT professionals from all around the world have the same intentions and share the same common knowledge, the field of their expertise is generally divided based upon their age, education, purpose, and even their geographical needs(country they live/work in). In this week's blog we are going to talk about IT in general, as well as IT professionals in Azerbaijan and their qualities, education, set of skills, and attitudes. maintaining the security of technology systems is a difficult task. If Azerbaijan's official and private technology infrastructure, which is among the targets of domestic and foreign terrorist elements, is not made safer, the threat of cyberterrorism will increase day by days. The concept of cybe...

  The term "Netiquette" in general, is used to describe the set of rules and commons we should stick to when communicating online to make it more efficient and easy for everybody. We should not be careless while chatting on the web just because of the false sense of 'anonymity' in it's nature. Although we may think we are invisible and invincible while communicating through keyboard patterns, every and all activity on the web is trackable and thus it is certainly punishable too. While there are 10 main guidelines to follow to make internet a more "polite" place, in todays' blog, we are going to talk about the 6th rule in Netiquette book by Virginia Shea - "Share Expert Knowledge" The fact that the Internet is so widely available and popular makes it easier for people accidentally or  purposefully spread false information. Although almost everyone seems to know that not all sources on the internet are reliable and share only true facts, peop...

  Most people are familiar with the term Copyright which describes the rights of creators that they have over their content. On the other hand, the term Copyleft, also widely known in the open source community, is a practice to make a copyright content redistributable and open source again. There are different methods and levels of Copyleft content and in this week's blog we are going to take a brief look at them. Strong Copyleft - Strong Copyleft conditions state that if a content includes some of your code, it still should be redistributed under the name of your license, if at all. Weak Copyleft - However, under Weak Copyleft conditions, if a product contains some of your code, some parts of it should be published and redistributed under your license, but some parts can be distributed under other licenses as well. Even if the finished product is the modified version of your code and serves the same purpose. No Copyleft -   As the name suggest No Copyleft conditions do...