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How to Install Kali Linux in the Cloud
Kali Linux is one of the top cybersecurity Linux distributions available. It’s a great distro created by the Offensive Security group, and we at SecurityTrails love it. In fact, we’ve written a few articles in the past showing the true power of Kali Linux, as in the Top 20 Kali Linux Tools, or when we mentioned some of today’s most popular ethical hacking tools.
Cyber Threat Intelligence
We are living in the age of data. The explosive data growth we are experiencing shows no signs of stopping, as reports show that the size of total worldwide data will grow to 163ZB in next 10 years.
Hacker vs Cracker: Main Differences Explained
Media coverage of data breaches is increasing rapidly, especially with the public’s watchful eye on organizations and the vulnerable systems they work with — easy targets for exploitation. However, the less-than-dramatic truth is that the frequency and scale of data breaches hasn’t really soared* in the past decade, even if people are still at great risk of having their data exposed. The media itself has brought on the hype and created a fear culture around data breaches and malicious attackers.
Types of Cybercrime and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
The Internet is not a safe place. Cybercrime is growing at the same rapid rate as new people getting connected to the digital world.
DKIM: What is it and should you configure it?
Improving email security and protecting against phishing campaigns, spam and other types of email-based attacks is the basis of good cybersecurity hygiene. When you consider almost half of the UK’s organizations have become victims of phishing attacks*, it’s especially important to make a thorough effort.
Top 12 Cyber Security APIs
Application Programming Interfaces (known as API), are the standard method of integrating, improving and sharing data over online services.
Top 10 Cyber Attack Maps for Visualizing Digital Threat Incidents
A new study by Bromium shows that digital crime revenue has grown to $1.5 trillion dollars annually in illicit profits. Popular websites including GitHub, EA and many others face bigger, more sophisticated attacks every day, falling victim to the growing trend of cybercrime.
Who is hosting this website? Find out using the SecurityTrails Hosting Checker Feature
Since the beginning of the Internet, countless services, products and technologies have emerged. At the same time, cybercrime has followed the same path, evolving and growing exponentially year by year.
DNS Hijacking: How to Identify and Protect Against It
A cyber threat thought by many to be a thing of the past has seen its resurrection over the past couple of months. Earlier in the year, we saw reports about widespread DNS hijacking campaigns targeting the Middle East and North Africa with a few in Europe and the US. That was followed by information about DNS hijacking attacks targeting home routers and phishing websites that imitate Netflix, PayPal, Uber, Gmail and more.
What’s My DNS? How to Find Domain DNS Records with our DNS Checker
The DNS system is involved with almost everything connected to the Internet. Here at SecurityTrails, we use it to build our core products and services focusing on passive DNS information, domain names, IP addresses, SSL certificates and port scanning.