This video gives a walk-through of AttackDefense TShark Basics lab. To visit AttackDefense Labs, use the following URL: http://public.attackdefense.com/ Uday MittalUday Mittal is a cybersecurity professional with rich working experience working with various industries including telecom, publishing, consulting and finance. He holds internationally recognized certifications such as CRTP, OSCE, OSCP, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC […]
DDoS Attacks: When Servers Won’t Serve
DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS is a type of attack in which multiple computers (for example a botnet) are used, to flood a single computer or a network with non-legitimate service requests to overload its resources. It is rare that a week goes by without news of some organization being impacted by […]
Social-Engineer Toolkit: An Introduction
Long back, I read a book called The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick, in which he explained some of his successful techniques to infiltrate into an organization’s network. Among them was one that he employed the most, Social Engineering. Social Engineering can be defined as a psychological play on people in order to lead them […]
Windows 10: Tame the Beast
With more than 14 million downloads, in less than 24 hours since it’s launch, Microsoft Windows 10 is being considered the best-ever Windows product. Why shouldn’t it be, it’s free after all (for those who hold genuine Windows 7 or 8 license). An year of free Windows is a commendable initiative by Microsoft to ensure […]
Information Classification: Incentivise, Hammer & Automate
“One can only protect something, if they know what is it they need to protect, where is it, who is accessing it and how, how is it being used and to what level should they protect it”. The above principle holds true, more than anything, for Information Security professionals. Primarily, because to secure any information […]
Will Bitcoin Rule The Free World?
Every once in a while, a new idea is born—one that has the potential to question the very foundations of everything we know about the world as it is today. The ideas I am talking about are those that have changed and will change the world for the better. Take email, for example—at its inception, […]
