Password

I got a long password with a passphrase that contains some numbers. So when I type in my password, I instinctively use NumPad to type it in. Guess what? Kali Linux doesn’t enable NumLock by default on startup. So I press Enter and it says I entered wrong password. This …

Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure? This came via a recent post made in Reddit. This list includes data of the country’s president. The database, which comprises 49,611,709 documents, was posted on the …

FBI successfully hacked iPhone and they wont disclose how it got data from seized San Bernardino shooters iPhone. The iPhone has been at the center of a bitter dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But that legal battle—in which a judge last month had ordered Apple to …

I’ve compiled a list of handy MySQL commands that I use very frequently  in a headless server. I am not a MySQL guru, so I decided to braindump everything in here. This covers random issues from WordPress slowness, Query Cache Modification, User Creation, Database dumping and importing, rsync’ing large files …

Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many …