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How to land your first Penetration testing job

Pentesting (penetration testing) is a career unlike any other in a lot of ways. It will test your limits on an almost daily basis, spurring you on creative
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Automated Tools vs a Manual Approach

Penetration Testing is one of the essential tasks for the security of mobile apps. Choosing between automated and manual testing is a dilemma for many compan
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Open source threat intelligence tools & techniques

The Internet, the network or networks is huge and has the most significant data you can ever think about; it is not limited to search the people or company i
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How to configure & use Suricata for threat detection

Suricata is an excellent, low-cost tool that gives you greater insight into a network. Despite this, it needs to be viewed as a single layer in a comprehensi
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Computer Forensics: Forensic Issues with Virtual Systems

What is Virtual System Forensics? When something is virtual, it is almost the same as the original—but not quite. In computing, this emulation can be particu
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Security Assessment of a Digital Signage Solution

Digital signage is a form of electronic display used by the organizations to advertise and boost their business. They are often used to display public inform
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Android root detection bypass by reverse engineering APK

In this article, we will look at various techniques being used by the developers and ways to bypass these root detection techniques for android applications.
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New Era of Crypto-jacking

Introduction Recently, cryptocurrencies have been making the headlines, especially with the number of attacks that have been occurring. In technical terms, t
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The Ultimate Guide to CCSP Certification

If you work in the IT field, you’re obviously familiar with the cloud. What was once a bit of a novelty has now become commonplace, meaning every company and
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15 best free packet crafting tools

Packet crafting is the process of manually creating or editing the existing data packets on a network to test network devices. Hackers and network admins use
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From local file inclusion to code execution

Local File Inclusion (LFI) is one of the most popular attacks in Information Technology. In this article, we are not going to focus on what LFI attacks are o
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Global Cost of Cybercrime on the Rise

Introduction Cyber-criminal activities worldwide continue to increase, in many cases, organized crime rings operate worldwide, and their profits are very hig
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Top 6 iPhone hacking tools for mobile penetration testers

As your career in cybersecurity or computer forensics progresses, you will no doubt come across one of Apple’s most popular devices ever made: the Apple iPho
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Top 5 android hacking tools for penetration testers

Android hacking tool is a loosely defined term in cybersecurity circles. For example, an information security specialist tasked with forensically investigati
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10 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Prevent Identity Theft

What is Identity Theft? Identity fraud occurs when an identity thief obtains pieces of a victim's personal information, such as Social Security number or dr
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Computer Forensics: Online Gaming and VR Forensics

Introduction With the expansion of technology, such as virtual reality simulators, it’s only natural that with progress comes setbacks, especially when it co
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Computer Forensics: ICS/SCADA Forensics

Overview Control system security is the practice of using security methods to prevent intentional or unintentional interference with the operation of industr
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Computer Forensics: Big Data Forensics

What is Big Data? In the computing world, there’s data—and then there’s big data. Described as a collection of information from traditional and digital sourc
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Computer Forensics: Introduction to Social Network Forensics

Introduction Digital forensics is yet another information security-related specialty that is in high demand these days, and there is a sensible reason for it
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Computer Forensics: Introduction to Cloud Forensics

Introduction Whenever I deal with the subject of the Cloud, no matter the context, it always reminds me of a conversation I had with my boss a couple years a
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Computer Forensics: Hybrid and Emerging Technologies

Introduction In this article, we will look at emerging and hybrid technologies and how they impact forensic work. Each is met with different challenges and a
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The Best & Worst Practices of Incident Response

Introduction Incident response is often an impromptu security area — organizations don't think about it until an incident occurs. Your response to an inciden
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Breach Notification Requirements for Healthcare Providers

The healthcare industry has so many data security regulations that it can become overwhelming. These regulations are developed and implemented at the local,
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9 Tips for Improving Your Incident Response Strategy

Introduction Incident response is a complex process involving many moving parts. Follow these suggestions to improve incident response across your organizati
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