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Back to Basics, Information Security: Today we all are running good so far with old and new security products to give us secure environments. However, we are dying in our knowledge of basics. What do we mean by "basics of information security"? The basics are nothing but hygiene. Similar to how we keep good hygiene at our house, work ...

Just like with any job there are tools, in the IT community there are millions of tools. Finding the tool that is most affordable and most efficient is important to make the life of any IT worker's life easy. But once you find the tools that make your life easier where do they go? Usually (at least for me) ...

You won’t pass or fail. You’ll just get some direction.In previous blogs, I offered tips on how to earn specific Micro Certifications, and how to determine which Micro Certifications were best for your career goals. And while making career decisions is a serious matter, I thought of a fun way I could go about offering more help.I’m sad to admit ...

To excel at penetration testing , you need to have your lab for practice/research. I would suggest you to use virtual machines which are free in the market. I would go with  VMware Workstation  rather than Virtualbox, it’s just my personal option. You can choose any one. Downloads 1. VMware Workstation Click  ...

Welcome back! To continue with the previous article, here we will learn to create a shell code with Metasploit and PE infector via Shellter into a Win32 application. For those who have not read part I, you can read it here . We have several ways to do that but keep ...

Step#1 – Admit That You Have a Problem Many IT professionals live in a world of denial. Assumptions are made about the security of systems and risks are often ignored. These stances are not taken out of ignorance or irresponsibility but are instead often-pragmatic decisions based on the number of resources available and the number of hours ...

If you are an avid reader of 0P3N, chances are you’ve seen a post or two from avid contributor Priyank Gada ( @groupflexi ).Priyank, who has experience as a forensics expert and penetration tester, frequently makes YouTube videos to share his knowledge.One area he’s extremely knowledgeable in is Kali Linux, which inspired his new Micro Course, now ...

Hello, Guys!I hope you are enjoying my posts. Here I will tell you about an attack which is very hard to detect.The pharming attack.When you type in a URL (www.example.com) into your browser, it then goes to the DNS server to convert it into an IP address. After resolving the domain name into an IP address, you can communicate to the desired ...

I <3 Social Engineering! Here's my story about how easy it can be to get contact information.So about 3 months ago, I was on the bus going home from school. I ended up getting a text message from an unknown number that was in my area code. It read the following,"Hey man, the people texted me asking about the walls. They are ...

Did you ever think of hacking into anyone's phone and getting all the data like they do in the movies? Well, that's not actually hacking but it's called spying. Spying is a term in hacking but not considered as hacking. A hacker can remotely install Spyware to spy on others. Ever wonder what would happen if a hacker gained physical access to ...