IT security is a complex field, which makes protecting goods and data against attacks a really difficult and ongoing challenge. As a security professional, I give lots of people advice…
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Category: Tips and Tricks
This is a totally short post, but vital information for me. I always end up searching for this online and always forget how to do it. So, in case you…
Last week I saw this tweet, which sparked a lot of interesting discussion about security of compilers.
For every programming problem that I have had in the past, there may have been a solution that I found and implemented. In most cases, the code is written and…
I have been a cloud storage user for years. I started with Dropbox, which offered over 100GB of drive space for free, through a number of promotions and collaborations (e.g.…
One day I was reading on phone malware that covertly tries to record audio, and wondered why there is no such discussion on desktop computers. I thought about WebRTC, the…
Playing around with privilege escalation techniques on my Linux box, I stumbled across an interesting exploitation method that can be used to get root privileges from a regular user account…
One of the most popular hacking requests, besides “how to hack facebook”, is how to gain access to protected WiFi networks. Many years ago, this was an easy task, as…
In the field of criminal investigations, it is often necessary to search for evidence on electronic devices. Digital traces can be found on computers, tablets, phones, USB drives, but also…
If you happen to own a Linux system, I am sure you already searched for solutions to problems on the Internet, only to find smart people that wrote down the…