KYC, or Know Your Customer, is a process that helps verify the identity of customers in the crypto community. This is important for a number of reasons. Most importantly it helps prevent financial crimes such as crypto scams. By verifying the identity of customers, businesses can ensure that they are not dealing with individuals or […]
A clickjacking attack is a type of web security exploit that involves tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link or button, typically by overlaying the malicious element on top of a legitimate element on a web page. This can be done by using transparent or opaque layers to hide the true nature of […]
Definition Device fingerprinting is the process of analyzing a device’s unique attributes to identify it. This approach intends to track individuals reliably and collect individualized identification information. Cookies are the most common method of tracking users. While they’re practical and users likely have some familiarity with them, they raise concerns for privacy-conscious users who disable […]
AWS is the top cloud provider worldwide, offering clients the same infrastructure Amazon uses for its e-commerce. S3, part of the AWS suite, is an object storage service for storing files, music, videos and more as objects. However, S3 data breaches are not uncommon, such as the US voter records leak from a misconfigured S3 […]
Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) is an efficient secret sharing algorithm for distributing private information (the "secret") in such a way that no individual holds intelligible information about the secret. To achieve this, the secret is converted into parts (the "shares") from which the secret can be reassembled when a sufficient number of shares are combined […]
OSSEC is an open source host-based intrusion detection system that can be used to keep track of servers activity. It supports most operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, Solaris and much more. It is used to monitor one server or multiple servers in server/agent mode and give you a real-time view into what’s […]
