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Role of Threat Intelligence in Business World

New, sophisticated threats persist in emerging daily across various platforms like social media, mobile, email and web applications. Simultaneously, new, hig
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Judy Malware: Millions of Android Devices Potentially Exposed

It has happened again; security experts have discovered a malicious application inside the official Google Play store. The new malware, dubbed "Judy," is des
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Malware-as-a-service

Section 1. Introduction In May 2017, a new form of ransomware called WannaCry affected more than 230,000 personal and business computers in over 150 countrie
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How Hackers Use Fear and Urgency to Get Your Information

Your PayPal account is frozen. Provide documents or lose it. The IRS is saying there is an error on your tax return, click the link to resolve it. Your loved
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/dev/random:Sleepy CTF Walkthrough

In this article, we are going to solve a machine which was posted as another VM challenge on the VulnHub website. The machine is named Sleepy. Check the link
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Learning Pentesting with Metasploitable3

Metasploitable is back with version 3, which includes lot more interesting vulnerabilities. Metasploitable3 is special because it is not a pre-configured dow
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The Virtual Personal Assistant and Its Security Issues

Introduction Our past series of articles have examined the various Security related surrounding the use of Smartphone based technologies. We did not examine
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How to Recognize Phishing Emails

Section 1. About phishing People all over the world get phishing emails on a daily basis. Email inboxes are full of suspicious requests to confirm bank trans
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Top 7 Ways to Use Wi-Fi Hotspots Safely

Often we find ourselves away from home with no internet connection; however, there are likely public Wi-Fi hotspots in the area that could be utilized. While
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How is AI Addressing Cyber Security Challenges?

Cyber-attackers are moving towards automation to launch cyber-attacks more frequently, while many organizations are still using manual systems and strategies
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Impact of Cyber Security on Start-ups

Image taken from The Fintech Times [pkadzone zone="main_top"] What is a start-up? A start-up is a young company that is still in its phase of developing. St
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Risks and Benefits of Security Policy Templates

1. Introduction Many small and large organizations prefer to download ready-made security policy templates instead of hiring experienced professionals for dr
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Tutorial for Building and Reverse Engineering Simple Virtual Machine Protection

1. Introduction The virtual machine protection refers to the kind of software protection technology by which the original executable and readable code are tr
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Super Mario CTF Walkthrough

Super Mario is an intermediate level Boot2root CTF. We hosted the VM in the virtual box and ran Nmap scan on the target.[pkadzone zone="main_top"] We notic
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Jailbreaking Your Smartphone

Introduction and Overview of the Last Article Our last few articles (specifically, the last four) have critically examined the Security threats and vulnerabi
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5 Key Steps to Survive as a Cyber Security Startup

With the disturbing facts that the hackers are actively breaching our computer systems and stealing our critical data and corporate information, it is requir
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Metasploitable: 2 - walkthrough

Metasploitable: 2 surfaced on VulnHub on June 12th, 2012. Created by Metasploit, it can be found at https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/metasploitable-2,29/. It is
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NullByte - Walkthrough

NullByte is an old machine that surfaced around April 1st, 2015 on VulnHub. Created by ly0n, it can be found at https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/nullbyte-1,126/
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Application Security for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Approach

Introduction to web application security The Web has evolved a lot over time. It started with information exchange, and now it is being used for almost every
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BilluBox CTF Walkthrough 2

In this article, we will try to solve a machine BilluBox which was posted on 21st April 2017 by Vulnhub. For those who are not aware of the site, Vulnhub is
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Top 50 database administrator interview questions [updated in 2018]

There are very few things in the IT realm that cover as much territory as databases. Before the web, and more specifically before the advent of dynamic progr
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User Privacy: The Price Paid

Digitalization has spread across the world as an epitome which will grow by time, because of the surge on machine dependency. Nevertheless, to mention, the b
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Cracking a WPA2 encryption password file

In this article will learn how you can crack WPA2 encryption password file. How to secure Wi-Fi? If you want to secure 100% wireless network, then the best
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Metasploitable: 1 - walkthrough

Metasploitable: 1 surfaced on VulnHub on May 19th, 2010. Created by Metasploit, it can be found at https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/metasploitable-1,28/. It is
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