InfoSec Hub: Stay Secure From Digital Threats

As the Corona virus spreaded across the globe, many countries imposed lockdown. This was responsible to implement 'work from home' for many companies (specially IT field). Due to work from home, the meetings were organised virtually. Various applications were used for conducting video conferencing. And the list was toped by Zoom, a company headquartered in San Jose, California. The downloads of the zoom app were dramatically increased by 1270% that is over 12 times from 22nd of February to 22nd of March. As a result Zoom's stock price hit to all time high in mid March. The Corona Virus originated as a boon to Zoom. But then Joe Cox writing for Vice Motherboard, reported on March 26 ,2020 that zoom ios app sends data to Facebook, even if you don't have a facebook account. Then Micah Lee and Yael Grauer writing for the Intercept, reported on March 31,2020 that Zoom meetings are'nt end to end encrypted, despite misleading marketing. People...

Today world is experiancing a very tense situation of COVID 19. Due to corona virus pandemic almost all countries in the world are under economic slowdown. This includes major countries like America, France, India, Italy, and many others. India is moving towards becoming a 5 trillion $ economy by 2024 but corona virus is acting like a huge wall between the target and Indian economy. As this is a pandemic, to stop the spread of virus major decisions are taken by the Indian government. This includes 21 day lockdown and to follow social distancing. But due to lockdown Indian economy is suffering. To deal with this situation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi established a fund raising campaign naming it as PMCares Fund to gather donation from citizens. But unfortunately hackers have their eye on the site. Taking the advantage of the severe situation.... Hackers always try to take the advantage of the loopholes in everything. They know that from which situation today world is underg...

Gone are the days when people used to be in a line to withdraw or deposit their money in banks. Now within few clicks you can do any transaction or any work related to bank even on your smartphone. But as coin has two sides, so does technology.  The banking sector is under threat from its existance. Earlier their were physical, actual thieves who would rob the bank but now there ie no need of any physical harm. Now hackers enter in the banks network and hack into the system and collect customer's personal information. So Cybersecurity is very important in the banks. The main agenda of having cyber security in banks is protecting customer's vital, personal information such as account number, transaction details,etc. Nowadays all the work of bank is done on computers. Almost all banks today have their app which its customers use for transaction. The customers can easily access all the services provided by the bank within seconds.If in any case their account is hac...

The CIA triad of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability are at the core of Information Security. Information Security professionals who create policies and procedures must cosider each goal when creating a plan in order to protect computer system. Confidentiality In Information Security, Confidentiality is property that the information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized use to individuals, entities or processes. Confidentiality is the component of privacy that implements to protect our data from unauthorized viewers. confidentiality involves set of rules or promise usually executed through confidentiality aggrements that limits access or places restrictions on certain type of information. Attacks that affect Confidentiality Password cracking Packet sniffing Wiretapping Keylogging Dumpster diving Phishing Integrity In InfoSec data integrity means maintaining and assuring the accuracy and completeness of da...

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...

Data is today's currency. We are surrounded by data 24 by 7. Data Privacy Day occurs on 28th of January every year. This day is primarily observed in United States, European Union, Canada and Israel and 47 European countries but is also spreading in other parts of the world due to growing privacy concerns day by day. What is the need to observe this day? There's no doubt how important privacy is but we somehow become unconcerned about the loss of privacy of our data.A decade ago no one would have predicted how companies would end up basing their entire business model on user data but now gradually changes are seen in companies privacy policies which is a good thing.  Spread Data privacy Day was initially began as an educational event to increase the awareness among businesses to prote user privacy and protect user's data.The educational focus has expanded over years to include families and consumers.The international celebration offers many opportuni...

"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...