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Article What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency or, we might say, electronic cash that uses peer-to-peer technology for transactions. Here peer-to-peer means it is…
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Article Using OSINT in Your Business How could organisations leverage open-source intelligence to gain more insight into their cyber threats? It seems that many organisations, including…
Article Encryption – Anything to Declare? Encryption is a great tool for reducing risks of the loss and interception of data. Encryption technology it has become increasingly deployable and…
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Article Botnets Unearthed – The ZEUS BOT Zeus, also known as ZBot/WSNPoem, is famous for stealing banking information by using man in the browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. As the…
Article IOS Application Security Part 7 - Installing and Running Custom Applications on Device without a registered developer account Usually, to test apps on a device, you need to be a registered developer which costs about $99/year. For people who want to learn IOS Application…
