Facebook, the most popular social networking site just implemented a bunch of new privacy settings for its users. The new privacy settings are being promoted by Facebook as making it easier for its users to control their information and consolidating the number of pages and privacy options. I have previously published an indepth Privacy Settings […]
Continue ReadingAuthor: Ajit Gaddam
Ajit Gaddam is an accomplished technology executive and is currently the Head of Security Engineering at Visa, where he is responsible for building large scale AI driven cybersecurity products, leading engineering programs, and providing expert guidance on cybersecurity matters. He has presented at conferences worldwide, including USENIX Enigma, RSA, Black Hat, Strata Data Hadoop, COSO Dublin, and GCS Ukraine. Ajit has been quoted by major media organizations and his work has been showcased in academic journals, security publications, and in two published books. He is an active participant in various open source and standards bodies, is a prolific inventor of disruptive technologies (over 100+ global patents), and moonlights as an instructor (SANS, community colleges).
Using SHODAN to find insecure Servers, Routers and gain ROOT access
SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. by using the simple search bar up above. Most of the data in the index covers web servers at the moment, but there is some data on FTP, Telnet and SSH services as well. Lets say you want to find servers running the ‘Apache’ web daemon. A simple […]
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Continue ReadingEncrypt HTML form data without using SSL
In certain cases, it might be hard to install SSL certificates or SSL is not supported by some webhosts. In those cases, there is a need to encrypt the data (POST/GET) that is sent when you submit a form because if you don’t, your data will be sent in plain text. So I ran into jCryption, […]
Continue ReadingHow to Encrypt Files using TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software that works on both Windows and Linux platforms. Data stored on an encrypted volume cannot be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. TrueCrypt does this by creating a virtual hard drive that will read and write encrypted files on the fly. […]
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