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News agencies are full of headlines, where country-backed hacker groups are presented as originators of hacker attacks. Usually, we are...

Internet of things is a name describing interconnection of all our devices between each other and with the internet. This is mostly about...

In the world of cybersecurity, vulnerabilities are unintended flaws found in software programs or operating systems. Vulnerabilities can...

The incredible thing, but all the cryptography consists of three types of cryptographic transmutations only: Hash, when you create a...

Having a look at what malicious devices really look like is refreshing and a great addition to reading about security. This article is...

If you ever encrypted something, most likely you bumped into a necessity to handle somehow cryptographic keys. If not, then an...

Vulnerability is a flaw in the software. In other words, it is a mistake that could lead to unpredicted application behaviour and could...

Recently we spoke about malicious software (malware). The basis of every malicious software is exploit. The foundation of every exploit...

A vulnerability can be used in a variety of ways. These methods are reflected in the names of different types of malicious software....

One thing is to read about security vulnerabilities, passwords and concepts. Another thing is to know how it actually happens and how...

In one of the previous posts, we postulated that 100% security does not exist. Security is always a compromise with availability,...

Recently we spoke about zero-day vulnerabilities. It appeared that they could cause a lot of harm in case if a functional exploit exists....

Not so far ago, we talked about the necessity to act, passwords and rainbow tables. Salt is used to help to protect you from rainbow...

Within security boundaries, knowledge without action is practically pointless. Knowledge is the essential thing, but it is not enough by...

In one of the initial posts, we found out that 100% protection does not exist. It appeared that something hacked is just a function of...

In the last post, we spoke about hash and salt. As a continuation of passwords topic, today I want to walk with you through real case...

Yesterday we spoke about hash and rainbow tables. It turned out that pure hashing theoretically protects against password exposure, but...

In the previous post, we learned about hashes. Its main feature is that it is a one-way function. If you hashed your password, you could...

In the previous post, we spoke about biometric authentication. Let's look today on another member of the triad. Let it be "something I...

In the last post, we found out that face or iris of an eye or fingerprint or voice or any other unique human biological attribute could...