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This is a continuation of Unhealthy Use of Social Media and its negative implications. Click here to read the previous part of this article. Let’s dive right in. 5- Information about your family/personal life: did you know you can put your family also at risk by posting on your own social media? Yes, you can! However, […]
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No doubt, social media has helped us all in various ways. From helping us market our services, to reaching more audience, to keeping up or reconnecting with friends/family, to entertainment and the list goes on. However, as we already know, life is binary. For one side, there is a corresponding other side. Here, we will
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Layer 5 Session Hijacking: When users browse the internet, the web server sends a token to each user’s browser to identify the connection from each user. In a session hijacking attack, an attacker steals a valid session token to gain unauthorised access to a web server. Methods used by attackers to achieve this include a
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1. Subject & Object: In IT, the subject is the user or process that requests access to a system’s resource(s). The Object is the resource being requested or being acted upon. E.g. When a user needs to view a MS Word Document or a log file. The subject here would be the User while the
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Just like breaking into any infrastructure, breaking into a wireless network requires a loophole or vulnerable area. leaving these loopholes unpatched would only leave you open to attacks. There are some common loopholes when it comes to attacking a wireless device or network and this short article would be highlighting six of them, how to
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Welcome to the CISSP Tips series by CyberPhorm. This is the first part of this series and we know you will find them useful. 10 tips would be provided in each episode. Tips discussed here are not enough to study for the exams and they do not replace the need to go for training; The
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What is a VPN and how does it work? Have you always heard people say “use a VPN” and never really understood its meaning or its purpose? Or you never even heard of it. Well, as usual, CyberPhorm is here to explain in simple terms for us to understand. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network
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What is DoS? Denial of service occurs even outside of the digital world. As the name implies, it occurs when access to a service of interest is denied when requested by a client. Under the major goals of security, denial of service falls under the Availability category. Denial of service affects not only services but
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Cost: Exam and training for the OSCP with 1 month (30 days) lab access is about $1000. Whereas, The CEH exam alone costs about $1,200 (plus $100 eligibility fee for self-study candidates) with average training cost of about $3000. However, re-take of exam is at a discounted price. There is also the CEH (Practical) exam
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This is a British Computer Society (BCS) certification, and it is beginning to make more waves in the market and having more demand especially in the UK. It demonstrates a foundational knowledge of information security management. CISMP stands for Certificate in Information Security Management Principles. To gain this certification, one would need to pass the
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