Category: Original

Prevent WordPress hacking using this Pen Testing guide

Welcome back to the next edition of “Hacking WordPress”. Find Part 1 if you missed it. Let me start with a PSA message. It is illegal to hack, log in to, penetrate, take over or even hack, a system or network of systems without the explicit permission of the owner.

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Hacking WordPress: Building the Lab

Hello all and welcome to the first episode of the Hacking WordPress series. With this series, I will be putting together a series of videos and articles that will comprise a set of tutorials to show you the ins and outs of building a home lab that will give you

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10 Steps to Creating a Secure IT Environment

Every day, as a part of my work at AlienVault, I talk to prospective clients. Many of them are trying to put together a security plan for their business. Most of the people I talk to are IT professionals who, like everyone else, are learning as they go.

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The Dark Web has a Serious Deduplication Problem

In a post released on 1/8/19, I wrote about the record number of breaches in 2018. This brought to mind a podcast that I was listening to a few days back hosted by Corey Nachreiner, CTO of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. on his 443 Podcast.

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The Internal Cyber Kill Chain Model

What is the Cyber Kill Chain?  Developed by Lockheed Martin, the Cyber Kill Chain® (CKC) framework is part of the Intelligence Driven Defense® model for the identification and prevention of cyber intrusions activity. The model identifies what adversaries must complete in order to achieve their objective. In recent years there have been numerous articles

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