A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Cybercriminals are creating fake cryptocurrency investment apps designed to defraud US investors and exploit investment firms, cautions the FBI.
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I struggled memorizing these and hope these tricks I used to get them to actually stay in my brain rather than memory dump after tests help you as well :). Try making your own mnemonics as I feel the process of making ways to remember helps it stick much faster and you’ll always remember the funny way you linked things up.
File Transfer Protocol – FTP: 20-21. ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.SocGholish AKA FAKEUPDATES was ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Developers who contribute code to the popular repository will have to implement two-factor authentication by the end of 2023.
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By Bob Weiss
If you missed Part 1 of this article, it can be found at last week’s post on May 5
When we use two or more cryptographic methods together, it is called Hybrid Cryptography. Common forms of Hybrid Cryptography included the creation and sharing of Symmetric session keys, through using Asymmetric Encryption.
Not all key exchange methods require using the PKI. Diffey-Helman, Oakley and other non-PKI key ...
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By Bob Weiss
May the Force be with you! It’s May the fourth, Star Wars Day.
I received an email from a CASP+ Student asking for some help with encryption. This is what I sent.
Encryption can be a mind bender. And then like magic, it is not.
If you are up for some outside reading (what! More reading? Sorry) there are a couple of books that helped me
The Code Book, by Simon Singh
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: April 7, 2022
CISA’s Sharing Cyber Event Information Fact Sheet provides our stakeholders with clear guidance and information about what to share, who should share, and how to share information about unusual cyber incidents or activity.
CISA uses this information from partners to build a common understanding ...
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by Bob Weiss
Email is one of the very first Internet protocols, going all the way back to 1971 and the early ARPANET. Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of networked email; he developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts across the ...
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