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The past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of my free time preparing for the OSCP exam, which means refreshing a lot of skills that I haven’t used in years. A large part of that is rebuilding muscle memory around buffer overflows, so that’s how I spent my four-day weekend. I logged about 70 hours compiling small programs, writing buffer overflows, building simple ROP chains, and honestly having a lot of fun. When I…

Data security and privacy are today a prime focus for most organizations globally. While there have been several regulations and standards introduced to improve data security, the evolving landscape makes it challenging for organizations to stay compliant. For many organizations, GDPR and PCI DSS are the first topics that come to mind when privacy is concerned. While GDPR is an international data privacy law for securing personal data, PCI DSS is a data security standard…

By Eileen Haggerty, Sr. Director, Enterprise Business Operations, NETSCOUT The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and increased organizations’ reliance on cloud services, VPNs, and other solutions designed to support remote work. These changes have redefined, if not destroyed, the idea of the traditional security perimeter. At the same time, the pandemic led to a massive increase in DDoS attacks and ransomware attacks. Globally, 2020 saw more than 10 million DDoS attacks, the most ever, with a…

By Yehudah Sunshine, Head of PR, odix With the workforce going remote and IP existing almost exclusively in the digital domain enterprises, local and federal agencies, and SMBs alike are all striving to find the right digital blend to meet their industry transformation needs. Supercharged by the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses in all sectors have been increasingly demanded to ‘digital transform’ and somehow mitigate all the evolving risks and regulatory expectations they face in the cyber…

Graphcore’s Poplar® SDK is available for developers to access through Docker Hub, with Graphcore joining Docker’s Verified Publisher Program. Together with Docker, we’re distributing our software stack as container images, enabling developers to easily build, manage and deploy ML applications on Graphcore IPU systems. We continue to enhance the developer experience to make our hardware and software even easier to use. Just over a year ago we introduced a selection of pre-built Docker containers for users. Now,…

Develop the necessary skills and use the tools to be an ethical hacker through this 120-hour comprehensive course bundle. Image: BeeBright/Shutterstock According to the 2021 Cybersecurity Impact Report from IronNet, the SolarWinds attack had organizations making an extra effort in improving their network defenses, but those that had taken serious cybersecurity hits had experienced attacks severe enough to warrant board meetings. This is largely because the financial impacts of the attacks were astronomical, averaging about 11%…