Hosting emails for other domains on your Mail-in-a-Box
December 27, 2019Host emails for other domains
Set Up a private email server
October 03, 2019Using a free Email service usually entails the risk of having your messages accessed by someone else. Mass surveillance by governments is…
Fileless malware
July 10, 2019Fileless malware is on the rise. What is it?
Private DNS in Android 9 Pie
June 15, 2019CloudFlare DNSCloudFlare launched the 4/1 DNS service on 1st April 2018. However, this was not a prank on internet users. With data centers…
Distributed Denial of Service
June 14, 2019Distributed denial of service results from multiple devices overwhelming servers and load balancers with voluminous traffic. This is…
Botnets
June 13, 2019Zombie computing devices used my hackers to commit illicit activities online
Password Brute Force Attack
June 12, 2019In a password brute force attack, a hacker attempts all possible usernames and passwords to gain illegal access into a system
Let's go phishing
June 11, 2019Phishing techniques and mitigation
Homoglyph attack
June 10, 2019This is whereby a website uses letters or numbers that look similar but may not be in hte same language. For instance, one may register a…
Cryptojacking
June 09, 2019This is the illegal use of computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies. The mining is an intensive process which leads to high power usage…
Create a password generator using under 20 lines of code
June 08, 2019Sample password generator using Python3
Virtualization
June 07, 2019Virtualization software abstracts compute environments from the underlying physical infrastructures. This therefore allows one to run…
Secure data erasure
June 06, 2019Secure data erasure aims at removing traces of any data that my have been stored on a drive while leaving the drive usable. Sectors or cells…
Evil Twin Attack
June 05, 2019Evil twin is an Wi-Fi access point that mimics an authentic AP in order for unsuspecting users to connect. This is achieved by using a Wi-Fi…
ARP Spoofing
June 04, 2019The Address Resolution Protocol is used to map IP addresses (v4 or v6) to the physical addresses (MAC)of devices in a network. A host…
Verify file integrity
June 03, 2019File modifications in transit can mean compromise to the security of a system. An attacker may embed malware and exploit unsuspecting end…
Audit your web server using Lynis
June 02, 2019Lynis is free software used to audit systems for a wide variety of potential security issues
Firewalls
June 01, 2019A firewall is a hardware or software device that filters and blocks incoming or outgoing traffic based on a predefined set of rules.
Disk Encryption
May 31, 2019Learn more on how you can use disk encryption to keep your data safe against unauthorized physical access.
Password Security
May 30, 2019A brief article on password security