Imagining a time without internet access at every point of life seems unimaginable now. The internet has been the greatest boon of the 21st century, and with wireless networking, man has progressed in leaps and bounds. It has ensured high efficiency, greater time management, increased productivity and lesser mess (no copper wires lying around). From homes to offices, students to working professionals, Wi-Fi is everyone’s go-to choice.

Contrary to what the name suggests, rainbow tables are nowhere as picturesque and pose a severe threat to users and businesses using the digital world. This article will attempt to break down the hows and whats of a rainbow table and arm you with knowledge on preventing a rainbow table attack. Primarily used as the base of a password cracking tool, this table helps crack password hash values or crack passwords.

As we all know, whenever it comes to penetration testing, the first thing which comes to mind is reconnaissance. Banner grabbing is used in the initial phase of reconnaissance to get an idea about the target system or application.

The digital world is a vulnerable space prone to attacks of various kinds. Denial of Service is one of the regular strategy attacks used to crash any server. A DoS attack attempts to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its intended users by generating enormous traffic and costing the legitimate users valuable time and money.

HTTP Response Splitting entails a kind of attack in which an attacker can fiddle with response headers that will be interpreted by the client. The attack is simple: an attacker passes malicious data to a vulnerable application, and the application includes the malicious data in the single HTTP response, thus leading a way to set arbitrary headers and embedding data according to the whims and wishes of the attacker.

In recent times when data breaches and cyber attacks have become so common, being cyber resilient and prepared for the attack when it happens is the new norm.

Over the last few years, the rise in data breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) has resulted in the loss of millions of records.

Amazon Web Services or AWS services has over a million users in around 190 countries and is an ever-growing and widely adopted platform as more and more companies tend to move toward a cloud environment.

In the age of fake news and fake emails, fake Amazon emails are becoming a major problem. If you’re not careful, these fake messages will cause some serious problems for your company’s reputation.

The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSP Toolkit) is an NHS operated online tool that enables organisations in benchmarking their security against the National Data Guardian’s 10 Data Security Standards (NDG Standards).