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Coding (or programming/black magic) is one of those things everyone talks about, acknowledges that everyone needs to know something about, but barely anyone actually does. Coders have this weirdly conflicting aura; they are the kingmakers, modern day sorcerers who, with seemingly an incomprehensible wave of the hand, can conjure a piece of software out of thin air, and in many ...

Today, I’m a psychic.And my prediction for the upcoming year is this: Mobile applications will become hacker’s target of choice.According to Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices, “The average organization tests fewer than half of the mobile applications it builds, and 33 percent of ...

The age-old battle of supremacy between PC and Mac users dates back to the introduction of the first Mac back in 1984. I jumped on the Apple bandwagon back then with a purchase of the original Mac 128k machine. I loved it and the MS DOS machines I was using at work couldn’t hold a candle to ...

Hi Everyone,I created an infographic for mitigating cyber attacks in the healthcare industry, but I realized that it might be easier if I also included a text version that is easy to copy/paste text from. So here it is. Recent cyber attacks targeted healthcare organizations should not be ignored because as cyber security is important for banking industry or ...

ADD PROGRAM TO RUN COMMAND EXECUTOR Ther RUN program is a small program that is  used in quick command execu tion , without going into the Command Prompt.   SECTION ONE: SETTING PROGRAM ...

I'm surprised I have not so far found an article addressing this to date. Should I be wrong, please advise.Many users of moderate level computer knowledge tend to forget about the Root account, that first account made at the time of setting up a new pre-built laptop, PC or even a new OS install so you can get on ...

  1.       Password Security 1.1 .    Don’t use common words, period! Or something equally predictable onto a common word. It is a fact that about more than 20% of all passwords are easily guessable. Example: 12345, QWERTY, your ...

I just wanted to give you an overview how one can be a Penetration Tester . I’m not gonna talk about career opportunities here since I do believe that a security enthusiast will always be passionate about information security, having a sense of how networks work and systems work. So, this article will shed ...

This is a completion of the first article Python Guide Part 1: https://www.cybrary.it/0p3n/python-guide-part/ This article is about very basic and common input/output commands in python programming, as well as statements, itterator, import, and functions. 1/ Let's start with input: We use input (input or raw_input) functions to read from the ...

This article explains which are the Linux commands most used by attackers and how to defend against these attacks . Although the solutions are based on Linux they work on other Unix-like systems as well. The commands were obtained from a study by D. Ramsbrock, R. Berthier and M. Cukie from the ...