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Take a moment to consider your company’s cybersecurity efforts. Do you picture your IT and security teams devising proactive technical solutions and dealing with threats? If so, that’s a typical and valid response. Yet, there’s another key piece that most companies don’t consider: business process. The ins and outs of how your company works affects cybersecurity more than you know. Ken ...

What is Mobile Hacking? With the alarming rate of advances in technology and affordability, a New Wave of Hackers has reached the shores of the infosec world. And the preferred choice of platform for these next generation hackers?The Mobile Phone .The Mobile Platform is ideal since modern phones are easily concealable and heavily spec'ed, ...

In most articles about hacking attacks, you usually learn of attacks by groups like Anonymous, LulzSec and AntiSec. And, you've also heard about websites and platforms that have been hacked, including, Sony for example. But, are you aware of the methods used to break down these services? There are many tools and techniques that some hackers ...

What is Tradecraft Tuesday? Every Tuesday at 12pm ET, Chris Bisnett and Kyle Hanslovan expose the techniques used by hackers. With their 20 combined years in offensive cyber security and digital forensics, Chris and Kyle cover a new topic each week in a LIVE video chat . These unrehearsed conversations allow anyone to join in, ask ...

When a user leaves the company, often the Exchange mail account is deleted and the user account gets disabled.In this way, the former employee can not access corporate data, but he still appears in the Global Address List (GAL) for internal staff. He can still be selected in the address book and is also still visible in the team calendar.The ...

Network Security 1.4 Given a scenario, implement and use common protocols.Based on CompTIA’s list of Security + exam objectives (their PDF list of domains is found here: https://certification.comptia.org/docs/default-source/exam-objectives/comptia-security-sy0-401.pdf ) , I’ll go through each one and give details and examples of each so you know what each listed item means.Where I ...

This Cybrary 0P3N submission will cover how to use tools such as aircrack suite, Reaver, Pixiewps, & HT-WPS#B to exploit a WPS vulnerability in certain routers.This attack is carried out on a Machine running Kali Linux. (Kali comes pre-packaged with the mentioned tools aside from HT-WPS#B). Here is a list of vulnerable routers: Spreadsheet of Routers Vulnerable to ...

On this weeks episode we discuss checking for malware in your firmware with Google's VirusTotal, Getting pwned by hearthstone hacking tools, Fake Flash Update Serves OS X Scareware, and the FBI trying to scrub its employees data off of the web.Check out the podcast at https://www.cydefe.com/podcast/2016/4/12/episode-22-the-one-after-the-long-break

I just wanted to take a minute to thank Joe Taylor @jbtaylor051 for making a substantial donation today. Joe purchased a huge amount of Cybytes, and the team here at Cybrary would like to say thank you!

The Penetration Testers Framework (PTF) is a framework created by Dave Kennedy at TrustedSec. Dave is the author of many other tools, yet PTF is a bit different as it aims to provide easy installation of other tools. It's written in Python and is available on Github. For people who are familiar with Backtrack and miss the /pentest ...