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Security

Signal – Privacy is possible with SMS encryption

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date December 10, 2015
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Phone calls and SMS privacy are now possible with Signal. What is ‘Signal‘? “Signal has been designed for the mobile environment from the ground up. Messages and incoming calls are fully asynchronous; push notifications to let you know when new [Read More…]

Linux Application Networking and Hardware Security

Dare to do a brute force attack again!

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date November 4, 2015
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Dare to do an SSH Bruteforce attack again and you are banned!! I have noticed that there are several DDOS SSH botnets attack these days on my server. Despite that I would prefer SSH to listen on port 22, I [Read More…]

Networking and Hardware Security

Debug your Internet bugs and vulnerabilities with ICSI Netalyzr

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 28, 2015
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Can your Network be easily compromised? Is your Internet vulnerable? You might want to perform some tests on the Quality of Service your Internet Service Provider – ISP is providing you. It can also be more dangerous if your ISP [Read More…]

Networking and Hardware Security

ZeNmap – The classic way of Nmap

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 20, 2015
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Nmap is a free and open-source utility for network exploration and security auditing whilst ZeNmap is a multi-platform graphical Nmap frontend and results viewer. It was originally derived from Umit which was created as part of the Nmap/Google Summer of [Read More…]

Scripts and codes Security

A brief description of the fopen PHP vulnerability

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date October 15, 2015
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One of the PHP vulnerability that is still being found on many websites is the fopen function in PHP – CVE-2007-0448. You can secure your website by disabling includes when calling the fopen function. According to cvedetails.com “PHP 5.2.0 does [Read More…]