Archives for hacking

28 May

Jugaad For A Jab: Did The Techies Go Too Far?

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“The Python bots notify the software engineers whenever fresh stock of vaccines are made available ” Swaroop Gudipudi, a software engineer, tried to book vaccine slots on the CoWIN app. To his frustration, he failed repeatedly. He figured out that the biggest problem with vaccine finder apps was the subscription of millions of people which…

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06 Jan

Is Cyber Terror The Main Frontier For Iran’s War On The US?

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Iran has vowed to retaliate for the drone strike, and cyber terror is one path it is expected to take. The threat is considered to be real, and both the US public and private sectors are on high alert. An Iranian hacker group calling itself the ‘Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers’ attacked a US govt…

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11 Dec

Fake Third-Party Python Libraries Are Stealing Information, Is Python’s Popularity In Danger?

Python removed two fake libraries from Python Package Index (PyPI) after a German developer, Lukas Martini, reported about the packages stealing critical information. Python was released almost three decades ago, but it was only embraced in the last few years due to the increase in artificial intelligence and data science-based third-party libraries.  However, these very…

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10 Sep

5 Ways Organisations Can Defend Against Living Off The Land Attacks

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Hackers nowadays are going old-school again. If you take a look at the some of the recent hacking events, techniques and strategies that were used years back have come back to the fore again. One such concept of hacking that is gaining traction among hackers is Living off the Land (LotL) Attacks.  What is Living…

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05 Sep

Decoding Cyber Basics — Threat, Vulnerability, Exploit & Risk

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It is no surprise that cyber-attacks over the years have increased significantly, according to a source, more than 4000 ransomware attacks occur every day since 2016. That is not all, cyber-attacks are prophesied to cause over $6 trillion of damage annually by 2021. And with that, the number of news articles and blog posts is…

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