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Train yourself as a professional in the field of industrial security

The protection of critical infrastructure is increasingly a priority in the field of cybersecurity that requires highly trained professionals. This article showcases Mooc industrial cybersecurity course to meet this need.

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Critical infrastructures

Industrial Control System

OWASP Testing Guide v4.0. A Guide to Security in Web Applications

The OWASP Foundation has updated its safety guide development, OWASP 4.0. Work of free distribution of high quality and prestige is already a reference for developers and auditors in the development of secure web applications. The OWASP foundation updates His guide to web development security, OWASP 4.0.

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Safe development

Detection of botnets through packet analysis

Botnet detection has become a priority in the sector of computer security. In this article we will see one of the main techniques of detection: packet analysis

Use and Abuse of DNS

DNS is a protocol present in almost all network communications and therefore very attractive as a tool of attack and / or distribute malicious software such as viruses, botnets and malware. In this article some both offensive and defensive strategies based on the use of DNS are briefly outlined.

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Best practices

Data protection

Incident

The Problem of Fragmentation on Mobile Platforms

Android is an operating system that is fragmented into various versions. This fact, combined with differing screen sizes and resolutions, has been a real headache for developers over the last few years.

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Android

iOS

Vulnerability

It is time for replacing SHA1

Microsoft and Google have begun to press Certification Authorities towards abandoning SHA1 as the default cryptographic hashing for issuing digital certificates in favour of the more secure family SHA2. In this post, we will see how does this measure affect the main web sites and we will review its causes and consequences.

The issue of biometrics as an authentication method

With the announcement of the new fingerprint sensor in the latest smartphone from Apple, the iPhone 5S, biometric sensors are again under scrutiny among information security professionals. Especially because the use of these technologies is becoming popular for consumer grade electronics, and its use use could become ubiquitous for something made to protect sensitive data, like information...

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