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Data security is important at every stage of the data lifecycle. Data can exist in three different...

Linux and Windows are the two most widely used operating systems today. Many people believe Linux is...

Malware authors don't make our job easy. Every time we think we've figured out their tricks, they...

A few weeks ago I spent a full lab session doing something that sounds simple on paper and is...

When most people think about malware analysis, they picture someone staring at assembly code for...

When I first loaded msdsrv.exe into IDA Pro, I had no idea what I was dealing with. No strings, no...

After working through the conceptual side of malware analysis — classification, the four analysis...

I've been digging into malware analysis lately, and one thing became clear pretty fast: before you...

Scanning a network and listing open ports is useful. Actually exploiting those ports and landing a...

Enumeration is the phase where a penetration tester moves from "I know something is there" to "I know...

Passive reconnaissance tells you what a target has exposed to the internet. Active scanning tells you...

Before a penetration tester runs a single exploit, they spend a significant amount of time just...