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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This post describes the installation and configuration of a system's monitoring infrastructure on Nagios, an open source network monitoring application. This is the first in two series. Enjoy! Nagios is an open source infrastructure system and enterprise network monitoring application. It monitors hosts and services, ...
Have you ever stopped to think about historic events or "history" as a whole? It can be overwhelming to realize that so much happens every day. If you think harder, there are 24 hours in a day [duh] (that's 1440 minutes if you want to get specific), and ...
#threats Today, January 20, 2016 the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, will be sworn into office. While many opinions surround the recent election and overall political landscape, none have been more threatening than those from the collective group Anonymous. Prior to the election, Anonymous vowed to take Trump down, ...
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Project description: The project is a robot vehicle to be precisely based on an Arduino core ( Arduino UNO) and carrying a Raspberrian independent system for memory consuming operations, and equipped with various tools for environment recon and pen-testing (GPS/ real-time positioning/live streaming, ...
Estimated reading time: 1.5 minutes When preparing for a penetration test, step one: Gather the information.Let's collect the information about the target by digging what is already available on the internet. You may do Google search, whois, traceroute, advanced Googling and other stuff but let's kill this with one shot. I have found a cool script which can come ...
Hey hey everyone we've published another podcast this month. On this episode we talk about Microsoft's new privacy dashboard, and a lot of ransom happening in the cyber world. You can listen to our podcast on CyDefe.com, watch our raw video at https://www.twitch.tv/cydefe. Story Links https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-launches-privacy-dashboard http://thehackernews.com/2017/01/mongodb-database-security.html?m=1 ...
When we talk about cybersecurity, for the most part, we are talking about the protection of systems and information from threat vectors such as: cyber espionage, cyber warfare, cyber terrorism, cyber negligence (looking at you Sony). In their most troublesome form, these threats take aim or point at military, secret, political, or infrastructure assets of a country and its people. ...
A lot of effort goes towards securing networks and the resources they host, but when it comes to the seven layers of the ISO OSI stack, it’s the application layer where a lot of the trouble begins and ends. Gartner places 90% of the blame for security vulnerabilities on the tippy-top layer (7). This highly-vulnerable top layer ...
Estimated reading time: 2.5 minutes IT security threats are constantly evolving. Criminals create new threats and new ways to bypass security as soon as IT professionals learn about current ones. As infrastructures are hardened with new technology, criminals find that it easier to manipulate end users to do their work. Ransomware attacks have taken advantage of ...
Estimated reading time: 3.5 minutes Information Security is the way to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information within an organization. Confidentiality, the information has been protected from authorized entity. Integrity, the information had been protected from unauthorized modification. Availability, the information is there when require accessing by authorizing users. To obtain the ...