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Coronavirus and Cyber security

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Hackers always try to search for different ways to hack websites. The coronavirus pandemic is spreading day by day. Hackers are taking advantage of this situation as environment of fear is spread all over the world. The number of malicious emails mentioning the coronavirus has increased significantly since end of January.They are forging emails mentioning the outbreak that appeared while opening the messages, unleashing malwares. Various phishing mails are created in order to donate money for the treatment of virus affected people. In one such kind of phishing mail, hackers created a phishing mail by the name of WHO ie. World Health Organization. In that mail they created a donation form by the name of WHO. In this user fills the details of debit cards and eventually money are transferred to hacker's account. Also are also various other cases of Cyber attacks discovered. In one such type Android users are using app called CovidLock to track the coronavirus. The app i...

Kali Linux: Hacker's Paradise!!!

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"THE QUIETER YOU BECOME,THE MORE YOU ARE ABLE TO HEAR" This is not any motivational quote from any book but is the tagline of the most famous OS used in the Security field called as Kali Linux which was formerly called as BackTrack OS . Kali Linux is a Debian -based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. Kali contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various Information Security tasks such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. Kali Linux is developed, funded and maintained by Offensive Security , a leading Information Security training company. Now the main thing to notice is that using the Kali Linux that means using the preinstalled tools in Kali will not make you a hacker. Kali Linux is yet another Linux distribution based on Debian. Kali Linux is not for hacking and cracking or stealing someone's data or a Facebook passw...