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, …
Browsing: Explained
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 certain characteristics. YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of Virustotal and is…
Explained: False positives
What are false positives? False positive, which is sometimes written as f/p, is an expression commonly used in cybersecurity to denote that a file or setting has been flagged as…
Explained: digital forensics
What is it? Digital forensics is a modern day field of forensic science, which deals with the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices. Read full news article…
Explained: user agent
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly escalating. Read full news article on Malwarebytes Unpacked
Blockchain, Bitcoin And Ethereum Explained
Can anyone truly say that they understand everything about Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum? Your questions are answered here. Read full news article on Forbes.com
Explained: security certificates
As a result of my PowerShell series [1],[2],[3], where I used the handling of certificates as an example, mainly because I wanted a method to keep track easier of which…
Explained: the Dark Web
You may have seen the Dark Web referenced in popular TV shows and have gotten the wrong idea, or if you already knew about it, you may have snorted in…
Linux Kernel Capabilities Explained
Traditionally, Linux Kernel distinguishes its processes with the following two categories: Privileged Processes: Read full news article on Dzone
Peyta / NotPeyta Ransomware Explained & Advice
The ransomware in question is a new strain of the Petya ransomware family, modded to take advantage of the same EternalBlue SMB vulnerability as the WannaCry ransomware. This Microsoft Windows…