A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
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I am trying to make a career change from support admin to IT. When talking to some of my more experienced friends I’ve been ...
Continue Reading →The CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 exam is a well-known certification exam developed to evaluate candidates’ knowledge and abilities in the subject of cybersecurity. This test is renowned for being difficult and thorough since it covers various security-related subjects, such as network security, risk management, encryption, and more. You need to know that CompTIA security+ SY0-601 exam questions you should learn.
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[This article covers an exam that is common in India. Not one of our usual cybersecurity exams, but the techniques described for preparing for this exam apply to any exam you might be taking.]
Many candidates each year apply to take the complicated State Bank of India (SBI) Clerk Exam. It serves as a gateway to a secure and promising career in the banking sector. However, the path to success in this exam is not easy, and it requires ...
Continue Reading →In a local area network for a typical business network, the DNS resolvers that would be the first used by computers on the network would be placed behind a firewall inside the LAN, or in a DMZ. If necessary, DNS resolution would be passed up the hierarchy until a server is found that has the answer.
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Back on April 13 I received another comment for my most frequently visited web page “New Insights for the CASP+ CAS-004 Exam.” The comment is so good that I had to publish it as a separate post.
By William Maclendon Howard
Passed on my first attempt three days ago……. somehow. Even after accidentally skipping the ...
Continue Reading →04/21/2023 12:30 PM EDT
Today, CISA released two community-drafted documents around Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Types of SBOM documents and Minimum Requirements for Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange ...
Continue Reading →Many of the certification classes that I teach are requiring a deeper understand of Linux, especially Linux commands at the terminal window. As a cybersecurity certification instructor, I know that understanding Linux commands in the terminal window is essential for anyone who wants to work in this field.
The command line is a powerful tool that can be used to perform a variety of tasks, from ...
Continue Reading →The delivery of cloud-based malware also shot up in 2022, triggered by an increase in the volume of apps being exploited to launch malware and the number of malicious downloads ...
Continue Reading →This post is for my cybersecurity students, and anyone else taking a cybersecurity class or studying for a certification exam.
From Jason Dion: “The most common type of code injection is SQL injection. An SQL injection attempts to modify one or more of an SQL query’s four basic functions: select, insert, delete, or update. Two common methods of performing an SQL injection are either using a single apostrophe (‘) or submitting an always true statement like 1=1. As a penetration tester, you ...
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