Evolution of Phishing: Spear Phishing and Whaling Scams Explained
Due to the high-profile cases of cybercrime in recent years, including the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal back in 2018, the Equifax …
Reflected XSS Explained: How to Prevent Reflected XSS in Your App
What Is a Reflected XSS? An XSS allows an attacker to inject a script into the content of a website or …
Explained: regular expression (regex)
Regular expression, or “regex” for short, is a mathematical term for the theory used to describe regular languages. But in computing, …
Explained: What is big data?
If the pile of manure is big enough, you will find a gold coin in it eventually. This saying is used often to explain why anyone would use …
Blockchain Explained in 7 Python Functions
Blockchain Explained in 7 Python Functions Previous post Tags: Blockchain, Encryption, Python It wasn’t until I wrote my own simple …
Industry 4.0 Explained By A Leading Venture Capitalist
Barry Eggers is the rare venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who grew up in the region. He can recall a time when the area was covered …
Explained: SQL injection
Even though SQL injection is a type of attack that is relatively easy to prevent, it is one of the most common web hacking techniques. So, …
Content Security Policy (CSP) Explained
The Content Security Policy (CSP) standard is a way to selectively specify which content should be loaded in web applications. This can be …
Stop telephoning me-eh-eh-eh-eh: robocalls explained
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly …
Meltdown and Spectre CPU Exploits Explained
For those who haven’t seen anything about this yet, details of two new exploits that could enable malicious code on websites to trick …
Spectre, Meltdown: Critical CPU Security Flaws Explained
Over the past few days we’ve covered major new security risks that struck at a number of modern microprocessors from Intel and to a much …
Mutual Authentication [Two-Way-SSL] Explained Using Mule Anypoint Platform
Introduction Mutual authentication, sometimes also called two-way SSL, is very popular in server-to-server communication, such as in …
Out of character: Homograph attacks explained
In April, Xudong Zheng, a security enthusiast based in New York, found a flaw in some modern browsers in the way they handle domain names. …
Explained: YARA rules
YARA rules are a way of identifying malware (or other files) by creating rules that look for…
Explained: False positives
What are false positives? False positive, which is sometimes written as f/p, is an expression commonly used…
Explained: digital forensics
What is it? Digital forensics is a modern day field of forensic science, which deals with the…
Explained: user agent
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly…
Blockchain, Bitcoin And Ethereum Explained
Can anyone truly say that they understand everything about Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum? Your questions are answered…