Start the cron Daemon Properly

The cron daemon is used to execute batch processing jobs on the system. Even if the OS does not have user jobs that need to be run, some system jobs need to be run, including important jobs such as security monitoring. The cron daemon is used to execute these jobs. If the cron daemon is not start...

The Importance of Bot Management in Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing teams need a comprehensive bot management solution to address the challenges posed by bot traffic and protect marketing analytics. Bot management is designed to protect marketing efforts from bot-generated invalid traffic by accurately and efficiently classifying traffic and stopping...

Persistence – Scheduled Task Tampering

Windows Task Scheduler enables windows users and administrators to perform automated tasks at specific time intervals. Scheduled tasks has been commonly abused as a method… Continue reading - Persistence - Scheduled Task Tampering...

Persistence – Scheduled Task Tampering

Windows Task Scheduler enables windows users and administrators to perform automated tasks at specific time intervals. Scheduled tasks has been commonly abused as a method… Continue reading - Persistence - Scheduled Task Tampering...

Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks

The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...

Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models

To stay ahead of adversaries, who show no restraint in adopting tools and techniques that can help them attain their goals, Microsoft continues to harness AI and machine learning to solve security challenges. One area we’ve been experimenting on is autonomous systems. In a simulated enterprise...

vPrioritizer - Tool To Understand The Contextualized Risk (vPRisk) On Asset-Vulnerability Relationship Level Across The Organization

As indicated by sources like vulndb & cve, on a daily basis, approximately 50 new vulnerabilities become known to industry and it’s safe to assume that count is going to increase furthermore. It’s a huge number of vulnerabilities to assess and remediate effectively and quickly. So today...

Network Infrastructure Penetration Testing: SPARTA

SPARTA is a python GUI application which simplifies network infrastructure penetration testing by aiding the penetration tester in the scanning and enumeration phase. It allows the tester to save time by having point-and-click access to his toolkit and by displaying all tool output in a convenien...

Online Automated Tasks: Huginn

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on yo...

[Ghiro v0.1] Digital Image Forensic Analyzer

Sometime forensic investigators need to process digital images as evidence. There are some tools around, otherwise it is difficult to deal with forensic analysis with lot of images involved. Images contain tons of information, Ghiro extracts these information from provided images and display them...