Hardening SSH with Ansible
This blog post is going to be about hardening your SSH config with Ansible. This guide will be built upon my earlier post about Updating your Homelab with Ansible and…
XE Group was exposed for eight years of hacking and credit card theft.
A relatively unknown group of Vietnamese hackers calling themselves ‘XE Group’ has been linked to eight years of for-profit hacking and credit card skimming. The threat actors are thought to…
BitMart: Crypto-exchange loses $196m to hackers
KEY POINTS Hackers have taken $196 million from crypto trading platform Bitmart, a security firm said Saturday. Bitmart confirmed the hack in an official statement Saturday night, calling it “a…
Why GoDaddy Data Breach Of +1 Million Clients Is Worse Than Described
Over one million GoDaddy hosting customers suffered a data breach in September 2021 that went unnoticed for two months. GoDaddy described the security event as a vulnerability. Security researchers indicate…
2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon
2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon Join the global cybersecurity community in its most festive cyber security challenge and virtual conference of the year. The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge…
TRYHACKME.COM’s Advent of Christmas 3!
TryHackMe launches Advent of Cyber – set to attract over 30,000 participants! TRYHACKME.COM’s Advent of Chrismas 3! All exercises in Advent of Cyber follow a fun Christmas story. This year,…
What is Data at Rest?
What is data at rest? Data at rest is data that has reached a destination and is not being accessed or used. It typically refers to stored data and excludes…
What is Data in Motion?
What is data in motion? Data in motion, also referred to as data in transit or in flight, is a process in which digital information is transported between locations within…
Justice Dept. Brings New Charges in Ransomware Attacks – The New York Times
Some News in Recent Ransomware Attacks The Justice Department said on Monday that it had brought charges against a Russian National whom it accused of conducting ransomware attacks against American…
DEFINITION – Plaintext
What is plaintext? In cryptography, the plaintext is usually ordinary readable text before it is encrypted into ciphertext or readable text after decryption. Data input to or output from encryption…