Regex (Regular Expressions)
Regex (short for Regular Expressions) is a powerful tool used for searching, matching, and manipulating text based on specific patterns. Understanding and mastering this tool involves learning its syntax, operators, and...
Detection Engineering and Its Types
This aspect of cybersecurity focuses on developing methods and strategies to detect malicious activities within an organization’s network and systems. It involves creating, deploying, and maintaining detection mechanisms such as alerts,...
Reverse Engineer – Assembly Basics
Assembly is a low-level programming language that provides a way to write instructions that the CPU can execute directly, it’s closely related to machine code but uses human-readable mnemonics.
Registers
These are small...
Wi-Fi Standards and Protocols
802.11 Wi-Fi Standards
These refer to a set of standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication, developed by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
802.11a → Operates in the 5GHz band...
Risk, Vulnerability and Threats
In cybersecurity, understanding the differences between risk, vulnerability, and threats is crucial for effective risk management and mitigation.
Risk
This is the potential loss, damage or destruction of an asset due to a...
Digital Certificate Management
Certificate Authority (CA)
This is a trusted organization or entity that issues digital certificates. These certificates are used to verify the identity of websites, individuals, and devices on a network. When you...
System Failure Behaviours Explained
The terms “fail open”, “fail close”, "Fail Safe", "Failover" describe how systems behave when they encounter a failure or unexpected event. These concepts are crucial to maintain either availability or ensure...
Simple Concepts of Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering in cybersecurity involves analysing software, systems, or hardware to understand their design, functionality and behaviour. The goal is often to uncover vulnerabilities, analyse malware, or understand proprietary systems for...
Access Controls
Access controls are mechanisms that manage how resources are accessed and by whom. Here are some common types of access controls:
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Permissions are assigned to specific roles rather than...
Pyramid of Pain
The Pyramid of Pain is a concept in cybersecurity that helps to visualize and understand the impact of various indicators of compromise (IOCs) on adversaries, illustrating the increasing levels of difficulty...
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Load Balancing
Load balancing is a process used to distribute network or application traffic across multiple servers, ensuring no single server becomes overwhelmed. Improving responsiveness and availability of applications, websites, and databases. Helping in resource optimization, maximizing throughput, minimizing response time, and avoiding overload of any...
ORM Vulnerabilities
ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) is a programming technique that allows developers to interact with a database using object-oriented paradigm of a programming language instead of writing raw SQL queries.
In an object-oriented language, you work with objects and classes. An object is an instance of a...
Cyber Kill Chain
The Cyber Kill Chain is a framework developed by Lockheed Martin to describe the stages of a cyber attack, understanding it helps organizations identify and prevent cyber attacks by breaking down the attack into manageable phases.
Reconnaissance
In the reconnaissance phase the objective is gathering information...