Protect This House!
For some computer system users, understanding the methodology of hacking is difficult. As an instructor myself, I try to find the simplest ways to teach complex subjects to my students. My latest student is my wife. I explained to her how foot printing, scanning, enumeration, initial access, privilege escalation, covering tracks and leaving the back door open is used by hackers to exploit your system. As I told my wife; it all begins with a house……. Think of a computer system or network as a house. The IP address is the location of the house. The windows and doors are...
Read MoreUSB Drives and “Sick” Planes
It has been over 2 years since Spanair Flight 5022 crashed, killing 154 people. MSNBC recently released this article, which mentions that undetected malware could be to blame. As the world becomes more technology dependent, we need to take more steps to ensure safety. It is simply not responsible to allow systems to be interconnected without putting appropriate safeguards in place. This incident is emerging proof that we live in a world where security sensors and checks on computer systems could mean the difference between life and death. Even in a perfect world (without malware and...
Read MoreWhat is a Secure (SSL) Certificate? Do I Need One?
If you’ve been in the world of electronic commerce at all, secure (or SSL, meaning Secure Sockets Layer) certificates have probably been mentioned at one time or another. But what is an SSL certificate? Do you need one for your website? Secure Certificates Explained Let’s look at this in a real-world scenario. Say you’re looking to buy a book on web design, and as such, you go to the king of online book retailers, Amazon.com. You select your book, add it to your cart, and click “check out”. You’re about to be taken to the part of the website that asks for...
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