Security

Two weeks back there was a  crippling cyber attack to hit US Office of Personnel Management that breached US Government Firewall. It’s the agency responsible for managing the personnel records and security clearance details for millions of current and past US government employees. US government alleged breach enabled attackers to make …

Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many …

What makes you truly anonymous and leaves next to no trace in the internet? In this post I will discuss the advantages disadvantages of Proxy vs VPN vs TOR vs TOR and VPN together. Internet is a huge and gravely important part of our life these days. It is not …

Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It is a very fast IP address and port scanner. It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports. It is cross-platform and lightweight. …

If you are a KeePass user like me, then beware. denandz just posted a tool in github that can break your KeePass password safe. Yeah, as they say, for the lulz, Anti-hacking tools (or teams like Hacking Team) are now getting hacked. Rightly so, this tool is named KeeFarce. It …