Quantitative risk analysis [updated 2021]
Utilizing a quantitative risk analysis is an integral part of security and ensuring a positive cost and benefit.
General security
Understanding DNS sinkholes – A weapon against malware [updated 2021]
DNS sinkhole or black hole DNS is used to spoof DNS servers to prevent resolving hostnames of specified URLs. This can be achieved by configuring the DNS...
Python for network penetration testing: An overview
Python is an extremely powerful and versatile scripting language. It is designed to be easy to write, and its large number of libraries provide a great deal...
Python for exploit development: Common vulnerabilities and exploits
Python is one of the most famous and popular programming languages for a variety of reasons. It is a very easy language to learn and use, yet is also very...
Python for exploit development: All about buffer overflows
Any application that takes users’ input needs somewhere to store that user input. This requires the application to allocate memory for storing this user-provided...
Python language basics: understanding exception handling
Ideally, an application will always work exactly as expected. In reality, things can go wrong for several reasons. A design flaw or issue with the system...
Python for pentesting: Programming, exploits and attacks
Python is one of the most popular programming languages in existence for several reasons. It’s easy to use, has a large number of available libraries and...
How to run containers securely
Hardening the Dockerfiles and securing the build environment are the first steps in protecting containers. Once the containers are started, they need different...
Increasing security by hardening the CI/CD build infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines are made up of various different components such as application code, source code repositories, image repositories, build servers, containers,...
Pros and cons of public vs internal container image repositories
Docker registry is a key component in IT environments that use containers. Small businesses and individuals can rely on publicly available registry services...