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Security Theater: Are You Feeling Secure or Actually Being Secure?
The increase and intricacy of cyber threats show no sign of slowing. Headlines highlight new data breaches almost every day, proving that the need for cybersecurity has never been more apparent than it is right now.
How to Detect and Prevent a Security Breach
Every day, a vast number of famous websites and apps suffer network breaches in one way or another. And the incidents you hear about on the news are only a tiny portion of what’s really happening under the Internet’s surface, where thousands of websites are getting hacked by malicious automated and manual attacks as you read this.
#ProTips: Bug Bounty Hunting with Random Robbie
In addition to having a proven methodology, whenever you’re bug bounty hunting you always need to think critically, and find new ways to catch bugs first. And nobody is better at finding innovative ways of doing just that than Robbie Wiggins himself — also known as “Random Robbie.”
How to Detect CVEs Using Nmap Vulnerability Scan Scripts
Nmap is widely known for its famous port mapping capabilities — we love it, and even included it in our best port scanners article a few months ago. Still, it would be quite unfair to reduce Nmap to nothing more than a “network mapper” or “port scanner.”
Top 10 Hacker Movies of all Time
Hollywood has a knack for influencing public opinion on many different topics. It’s been doing just that for over a century, and hackers have been no exception.
Introducing ASR | The #1 Tool to Reduce your Attack Surface Area
From the very beginning, vulnerabilities, open ports and exposed critical applications have been the most easily detected components of your attack surface area, making them the most easily exploited by malicious actors.
List of All Cybersecurity Conferences to Attend in 2020
Conferences are an important part of any industry: they allow you to meet with your peers in a less formal environment, expand your professional network and stay on top of all the latest trends and concepts in your industry.
Best Honeypots for Detecting Network Threats
Usually on this blog we write about red-team tools for penetration testing, such as vulnerability scanning tools, port scanning utilities, top ethical hacking Linux distributions, and much more regarding the OSINT world. However, this time we’re switching to the defensive side: let’s talk about honeypots!
Top Linux Distros for Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing
Every superhero needs the right weapons and tools, and security professionals are no different. The right toolkit is one of the most important things you’ll need to help you perform cyber investigations, digital forensics and penetration testing more efficiently and quickly.
How to Find IP Ranges a Company Owns
Whether you’re an infosec beginner, an intermediate user, or one of the Internet’s most famous hackers, sooner or later you’ll get curious about how to identify a company’s public network address range.