Mahadsanid fasax dheer oo sanadle ah oo Mastercard ay bixiso (waxaan helnay 25 maalmo!) I took a two week trip to Egypt earlier this month to visit a place I have always wanted to see: the burial tombs of the ancient pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. As a security engineer, I could not help looking at these…
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This post is a response to a friend who is seeking a cybersecurity role in an extremely challenging market. Given that this is a widespread issue these days, I decided to write a post rather than simply leaving a comment. Various statistics from multiple sources suggest that there is a wide gap in cybersecurity roles,…
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Kulankeygii ugu horreeyay ee dunida dambiyada internetka wuxuu ku dhacay olole weerar Watering Hole dhowr sano ka hor. I visited a Persian website and discovered that it was downloading malware onto visitors’ browsers. I promptly contacted the site administrator, who informed me that they had no technical knowledge of the issue. It became apparent that…
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Waxaan tan maqlay dhowr jeer sannadihii la soo dhaafay: qof ayaa la kulmaya weerar culus oo DDoS ah boggooda internetka. When I ask them what type of attack they are experiencing, the answer is usually that the bad guys are sending them thousands or even millions of POST requests. When I…
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DDoS (Diidmada adeega si la qaybiyo) iyo DoS (diidmada adeega) weerarada waxaa si guud loogu kala saari karaa saddex qaybood iyadoo lagu saleynayo lakabyada moodelka OSI ee ay bartilmaameedsanayaan: lakabka shabakadda (Lakabka 3), lakabka gaadiidka (Lakabka 4), iyo lakabka codsiga (Lakabka 7). Lakabka 3 iyo Lakabka 4 weerarada badanaaba ma aha kuwo aad u adag–even though that they might…
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The web application firewall (WAF) is a security tool used to guard against unwanted access to web applications. It is often a security device that sits on top of a web server and guards against threats from the internet or from beyond the network perimeter. Unlike Layer 3 (Network) iyo Lakabka 4 (Transport) firewalls, which…
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Canvas fingerprinting, and Zombie cookie trackers are nothing new; however, these methods are improved and have become notoriously effective over the time. Recently, a study revealed that one in every four 10,000 most visited websites on the internet uses canvas fingerprinting to track the visitors with up to 99.9% saxnaanta. The tracking attempt to collect…
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For many years, I zealously have used Suhosin with any implementations of PHP5 on Apache2 or PHP-FPM Nginx webservers to defend against SQL injection and other common web attacks. In fact, PHP5 was so disastrous, both in terms of its core security, and its functions and modules that I could have never conceived using it…
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