Author: Farhad

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Uxhalabile okanye ulungelelanisiweyo? Iimfihlo ezisele kwideski yakho

Ndihlala ndifumana imibuzo malunga nokuba kutheni ndine-sticker kwi-ambient light sensors kumakhompyutha am nakwiifowuni. Abanye bacinga ukuba andazi mehluko phakathi kwesensor yokukhanya kunye nekhamera baze bazame ukundichazela ukuba le ayiyikhamera. Abangaziyo kukuba ii-ambient light sensors zinokuba…
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Iphoso enkulu yokhuseleko kwihlabathi lasendulo: izifundo zokhuseleko ezivela eValley of the Kings

Enkosi kwiMastercard iveki ende yonyaka (sinayo 25 iintsuku!) 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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Imisebenzi yokhuseleko lwe-cyber

Ungayifumana njani imisebenzi yokhuseleko lwe-cyber kwinqanaba loku-0

Lompost ulishwankathelo lomsindiso komhlobo obefuna umsebenzi wokhuseleko lwe-cyber kwimarike enzima kakhulu. Ukuba oku kungengxaki enkulu le mihla le, Ndagqiba kwelokuba ndibhale iposti endaweni yokushiya nje izimvo. Various statistics from multiple sources suggest that there is a wide gap in cybersecurity roles,…
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Uhlaselo lwe-WaterHole

Uhlaselo lwe-Watering Hole: indlela i-APT kunye nabantu abanobuqhophololo be-cyber abangena ngayo kwiinkqubo ezikhuselekileyo

Umhlangano wokuqala wam nomhlaba wabalandeli be-cyber wenzeka ngamkhankaso ohlasela i-watering hole kwiminyaka emininzi eyadlulayo. Ndindwendwele iwebhusayithi yasePerse ndaza ndafumanisa ukuba yayikhuphela isoftware eyingozi kumatyala abendwendwela’ Iibhrawuza. Ndakhawuleza ndazisa umntu ophethe iwebhusayithi, owandazisa ukuba abanalo ulwazi lobugcisa ngalo mbandela. Kwabonakala ukuba…
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credential stuffing

Ukuzaliswa kwesatifikethi akuyi kuba yi-DDoS!

I have heard this many times over the course of the last several years: someone is experiencing a heavy DDoS attack on their website. 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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application ddos attacks

Uhlaselo lweDDoS kumaleko weeNkqubo zeSoftware, kwaye indlela ezinokuthintelwa ngayo

DDoS (distributed denial of service) and DoS (denial of service) attacks can be broadly classified into three categories based on the layers of the OSI model they target: network layer (Layer 3), transport layer (Layer 4), and application layer (Layer 7). Layer 3 kwaye ne-Layer 4 attacks are typically less complexeven though that they might
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I-Web Application Firewall (WAF)

I-WAF isimile, yihlale i-WAF!

I-firewall yesicelo sewebhu (WAF) lisebenza njengesixhobo sokhuseleko esisetyenziswa ukuqinisekisa ukuba akufakwa kungenxa yokungafunwa kwizicelo zewebhu. Ngokuqhelekileyo lihlala lisixhobo sokhuseleko esikwi-top ye-server yewebhu kwaye likhusela kuzo zonke izoyikiso ezivela kwi-intanethi okanye ngaphaya komda wenethiwekhi. Ngaphandle kwe-Layer 3 (Inethiwekhi) kwaye ne-Layer 4 (Yothutho) firewalls, eyiphi…
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Zombie Cookies Verizon Yahoo AOL

How to deal with new tracking techniques; Zombie cookies and Canvas fingerprinting

Canvas fingerprinting, and Zombie cookie trackers are nothing new; however, these methods are improved and have become notoriously effective over the time. Kutshanje, 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% ukuchaneka. The tracking attempt to collect
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PHP Suhosin

The end of Suhosin; what is next?

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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