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📈 The Hottest Articles on Everyone’s Radar!

​Browse The Web Safely: Ultimate Guide To Secure Google Chrome​

👇 Table of content:

• Tweak Settings to Secure Chrome
• Chrome Security Extensions and Apps
• Tips to Stay Secure Online

​Digital Forensics Explained in 5 Minutes or Less​

👇 Table of content:

• Why Do We Need Digital Forensics?
• Advantages of Digital Forensics
• Different Types of Digital Forensics
• Process & Phases of Digital Forensics
• Digital Forensics: Challenges & Use Cases
• Learning Resources

​Ten Steps That Will Guarantee Cybersecurity in Your Business​

In a recent study by Panda Security in collaboration with Nielsen, 91% of Spanish SMEs confirmed that they were victims of daily IT attacks.

The viruses that wreaked havoc on their systems included Trojans (33%) and spyware (25%).

The viruses entered the company systems from unsecure websites (39%), downloaded programs (23%), and email malware (19%).

​HTTP Request Smuggling – Web Cache Poisoning for Deception​

This lab is a bit similar to the last, however, it has a completely different purpose. In the previous, we poisoned the cache in an attempt to trigger an XSS.

In this lab, we are looking at poisoning a cache such that we will cause a victim user to cache their sensitive content which then can be retrieved by an attacker. It is a similar means to a different end.

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⚙️ Tools To Explore

• ​Beagle Security - Beagle Security lets you automate vulnerability assessment and reporting so that you can focus on accelerating remediation and secure your web applications from the latest security vulnerabilities. Security testing made easy for everyone.
• ​Sym - Sym helps developers secure infrastructure and maintain velocity. You get everything you need to implement just-in-time access for your team: a Terraform provider for defining roles, a workflow engine in Python, and a simple Slack UI for requests.
• ​Authsignal - Authsignal is Fraud Ops Automation suite that brings together drop in step up passwordless authentication, a no code fraud rules engine to manage friction, and a single view of the customer to observe and analyze threats, all through a simple API integration.

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🔔 What's New

​How the Dark Web is Embracing ChatGPT and Generative AI​

👇 Table of content:

• ChatGPT Isn’t Your Trustworthy Chemistry Partner
• Even the Dark Web Can’t Resist a Good Marketing Scheme
• On a More Serious Note…
• New Ways to Bypass Filters by Threat Actors
• Cybercrime and Generative AI: What Does this Mean?
• Generative AI and Flare

​Fake DDoS Services Set Up to trap Cybercriminals

The “online criminal marketplace” has been disrupted via several fake Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools, according to an announcement from The British National Crime Agency (NCA).

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🚀 Learn and Teach Security!

​What is DNS Cache Poisoning and How can you prevent it?​

👇 Table of content:

• What is DNS cache poisoning?
• How does DNS caching & DNS cache poisoning work?
• Examples and effects of DNS cache poisoning
• What happens when you clear the DNS cache?
• How to detect and prevent DNS cache poisoning
• DNS spoofing vs. DNS cache poisoning
• How will DNSSEC help prevent DNS cache poisoning
• Can a VPN help you stay safe?

​A 10-Year-Old’s Guide to Smishing​

Have you heard of “smishing”? It’s a new type of online trickery that can happen on your phone through text messages.

Cybercriminals use smishing to get people to give them private information or to download bad software onto their phones.

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