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It sounds illegal and can be, but if used the right way, it can give you more accurate search results. That means fewer results to go through before finding what you are actually looking for. It’s time to get your Google-Fu on (or learn to use Google correctly if you’re not a geek!). Google provides ‘operators’ which ...

From the previous article, we know what exactly a  Session  is. In this article, we will learn about  Session Fixation . For a better illustration, I have created a simple application built on  ASP.NET . You can download the project from my Github,  here . This project has two folders  ‘SecureLoginFunc’  & ‘ InsecureLogin ‘ ...

#wikileaks  Just when you thought there wouldn't be any more leaks, Wikileaks dripped again. The latest leak, which sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie, is a tool that disables security cameras and disrupts recordings to prevent its agents from being seen.  No, this isn't the latest James Bond film and despite ...

Having a backup is a savior for many users when facing Windows corruption. We as users should always keep a backup of our files in the event of corruption or any other kind of data loss, we can restore our data from one of our backups. The whole idea of creating a backup is to restore data during ...

Mobile banking apps have become a major need for organizations seeking financial applications development services. For most banks, the biggest concern is how they can offer customers mobile banking services that exceed the customers’ needs and expectations.Mobile apps have also increased competition among banks and each is looking for ways to gain that competitive edge using their mobile banking ...

Database corruption in SQL server can be very frustrating, as a single server is used by multiple users. When SQL database gets corrupt, it affects all the users and leads to unprofitability and under productivity. SQL Database is used by many clients like  Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, Ingres, etc. Since it is used by a vast ...

While Cybrary focuses primarily on cyber security education, we recognize that cyber extends into every aspect of technology, including the growing area of software engineering. Many Cybrarians are especially interested in this area of study, which is not surprising, considering the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts “employment of software developers alone is expected to grow 22% between ...

Gone are the days when being ‘tech-savvy’ was just a ‘nice to have’ trait. Nowadays, as we all know, being familiar with the basic functions of a computer and certain software is essential for everyone from school-aged children to grandma.As I’ve been interacting with users on the site, it seems there is a certain hesitation for those ...

Important note: Before you try this tutorial, please make sure that Python version 3 and the Yara library are installed on your operating system.Yara is a multi-platform tool that is used for pattern matching in malware analysis to identify and classify malware samples. With Yara you can create description and rules to be applied with. from this point ...

According to OWASP, Broken Authentication and Session Management is when  ‘Application functions related to authentication and session management are not implemented correctly, allowing attackers to compromise passwords, keys, or session tokens, or to exploit other implementation flaws to assume other users’ identities.’  In other words, an attacker can get unauthorized access of the user due to the flaw ...