Article HIPAA and IT Security The health care system, and the research organizations within it, is a sensitive sector and one of the most exposed to privacy risks, which makes…
Article Regulatory Compliance for HIPAA Security Officers Prior to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted in 1996, the healthcare industry had no generally accepted set of…
Article A Project Management Guide to Deploying Biometrics: The Basics Overview of the Last Article Our last article examined the concept of E-Voting, and how it is taking precedence worldwide. Essentially, many nations…
Article Process: Scanning and enumeration In an environment of global connection and cyber terrorism, the protection of information assets is vital to every private business, public…
Article I Social Engineered my Dad! Introduction I'd like to tell you a short story about how I performed a Social Engineering attack against my lovely Dad! Of course, everything that…
Article The Mirai Botnet: A Milestone in the Threat Landscape August 2015, MalwareMustDie spotted the Mirai malware In August 2015, the researcher MalwareMustDie analyzed samples of a new ELF Trojan backdoor,…
Article Biometrics: Technical Aspects Overview of the Last Article Deploying any type or kind of security solution can be a daunting task. There are many factors which need to be taken…
Article Metasploit cheat sheet Metasploit is a framework and not a specific application. As a framework, the user can build their own specific tools that can be used for specific…
Article Pros and cons in penetration testing services: The debate continues Those who keep up with current events on InfoSec are aware of the increasing number of significant cyber data breaches impacting industries like…
Article An Overview of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) The payment card industry consists of all the organizations which store, process and transmit cardholder data and carry transactions through debit…
Article Code execution and privilege escalation – Databases In this article, we will have an in depth at some very uncommon techniques for gaining a remote code execution on uncommon databases and escalating…
Article SkyDog Con CTF - Catch Me If You Can In this challenge there are eight flags are in the form of flag {MD5 Hash} such as flag{1a79a4d60de6718e8e5b326e338ae533}. We hosted the VM in…
Article Penetration testing methodologies and standards Cybercriminals are targeting personal and corporate information by using different attacking vectors. The main reason behind their success is the…
Article Deploying Biometrics: The Modality Aspect Overview of the Last Article As our last two articles have reviewed, the procurement and deployment a full blown Biometric system at a corporation…
Article About Rapid 7 Rapid 7 is a well-known security solution provider that is devoted to providing services and products to protect, detect and response the security…
Article Denial of Service Attack In this post, we examine the DoS (Denial of Service attack), how it works, what's the impact of such an attack, and some tools to perform this kind…
Article Ransomware-based attacks: Should you pay the ransom? Introduction Ransomware represents one of the most dangerous cyber threats for netizens and private companies across the world. In the criminal…
Article Pentesting Systems and Platforms: Other OS Distributions, Suits, and Environments Cyber security researchers and professionals perform penetration testing to find vulnerabilities in a system before an attacker exploit it. Penetratio
Article Pentesting ICS Systems Security of ICS systems is one of the most critical issues of this last year. In this article, we will have a brief introduction to ICS systems,…
Article HIPAA Security Rule What is the HIPAA security rule? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a US law that came into force in 1996 in order…
Article The Cybersecurity Market 2016 and future predictions: How to Deal with 100s of Solutions I hope you haven't forgotten my previous article about the cyber security market and companies it consists of. Now we are going to pursue the topic.…
Article Deploying Biometrics: The Database Aspect Overview of the Last Article In any business or corporation, change is always a must. Whether it is for strategic or operative reasons, to flourish,…
Article Online Shopping and the Threats Surrounding It Online shopping has made life much easier than it was ever before. But the same formula of convenience is equally applied on cybercriminals too, who…
Article 2017 Cyber Security Predictions A look at the 2016 predictions This is the period of the year when we verify the cyber security predictions made last year trying to imagine the…
