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Top 6 Cybersecurity Books from Packt to Accelerate Your Career
With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber-attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. In organizations worldwide, there is not only a dire need for cybersecurity analysts, engineers, and consultants but the senior management ...
Why secure web-based applications with Kali Linux?
The security of web-based applications is of critical importance. The strength of an application is about more than the collection of features it provides. It includes essential (yet often overlooked) elements such ...
Kali Linux 2019.4 released with Xfce, a new desktop environment, a new GTK3 theme, and much more!
On November 26, the Kali Linux team announced its fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, which is readily available for download. A few features of Kali Linux 2019.4 include ...
Glen Singh on why Kali Linux is an arsenal for any cybersecurity professional [Interview]
Kali Linux is a popular term for anyone related to computer security. It is the most renowned tool for advanced Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments. To know more about ...
10 times ethical hackers spotted a software vulnerability and averted a crisis
A rise in multiple cyber-attacks and the lack of knowledge and defenses to tackle them has made it extremely important for companies to use ethical hacking to combat hackers. While Black Hat ...
How has ethical hacking benefited the software industry
In an online world infested with hackers, we need more ethical hackers. But all around the world, hackers have long been portrayed by the media and pop culture as the bad guys ...
Netflix security engineers report several TCP networking vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and Linux kernels
Yesterday, the security engineers at Netflix reported several TCP networking vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and Linux kernels. Out of these vulnerabilities, the most serious one is called “SACK Panic” that allows a remote ...
Listen: We discuss what it means to be a hacker with Adrian Pruteanu [Podcast]
With numerous high profile security breaches in recent years, cybersecurity feels like a particularly urgent issue. But while the media – and, indeed, the wider world – loves stories of modern vulnerabilities ...
Kali Linux 2019.1 released with support for Metasploit 5.0
Yesterday, Kali Linux’s first release for 2019 was announced. Kali Linux 2019.1 comes with a variety of changes and new features including, support for Metasploit version 5.0, kernel up to version 4.19.13, ...
Security experts, Wolf Halton and Bo Weaver, discuss pentesting and cybersecurity [Interview]
This is Part 2 of the interview with our two Kali Linux experts, Wolf Halton, and Bo Weaver, on using Kali Linux for pentesting. In their section, we talk about the role ...
