tion between your startup’s end and your web visitors’ browsers. It thus encrypts sensitive data making it unreadable by hackers.

Such sensitive information may include login credentials, payment information, health records, and other personal information. With the increasing cases of data breaches, you have no option but to buy and install the SSL certificate.

Being a startup, you also need the SSL certificate to help you rank in search engines. There are several SSL certificates options that will work best for your startup. For instance, you can use the Comodo Essential SSL certificate, a cheap and cost-effective certificate that will secure your chosen domain or subdomain. 4. Multiple Factor AuthenticationEnabling a multiple-step authentication is one of the most straightforward yet effective cybersecurity tips you should take to secure your startup.

It is a security feature that requires users to go through an extra verification process before finally being granted access to their account. With multiple-factor authentication, even if your login credentials are compromised, the hacker will have to enter a security code sent exclusively to your phone.

The multiple-step authentication technology has also undergone tremendous transformation. For example, we now use biometric features such as fingerprints and face recognition to help strengthen the user verification process. 5. Always Use an Up-to-date SoftwareYou are busy on your office desk, probably strategizing on how you will make your business grow.

A popup notification telling you that a new software update is available suddenly appears on your screen. Because you are busy, you quickly click on ‘cancel’ instead of ‘install.’ That act alone can compromise your business and bring it to a premature halt.

Skipping a software update will keep the door open for hackers to access your sensitive information, distort the information, steal it, and spread malware to your system.

Many of the malware attacks that occur today leverage outdated software versions. The Equifax Data Breach is one perfect example.

New software versions come with more enhanced security features that can help protect your business from cybersecurity threats. Never procrastinate about installing the update. Ensure that you install it the moment you see that popup notification on your screen. 6. Install FirewallsThere is a common misconception about firewalls- that they are only necessary for large corporations and governmental agencies. However, the reality is that every type of business, including startups, must have a firewall to survive the many cybersecurity threats happening today.

A firewall is one of the essential defense tools for your startup. Its task is to prevent any form of unauthorized connections from reaching you. It will monitor incoming and outgoing traffic and will only allow safe traffic to your network. 7. Access LimitationsWho should be able to access your business’s data? Should all your employees be granted permission to navigate through all data repositories? Certainly not. Your employees could as well be your biggest enemies. It is not good to trust anyone, especially in a startup setup where you barely know your employees.

The best practice will be applying the principle of the least privilege. Only those who have business with the data should be granted permission to access the data. By limiting access to sensitive user data, you will be limiting the potential threats associated with data exposure to the wrong hands.

Conclusion

Many startup owners often think that they cannot be victims of a data breach and that they have little to make a hacker come after them. that is not the case. Startups have now emerged as one of the primary targets for hackers. You must launch your business alongside a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy to ensure that you are resilient to any form of cyberattacks. This article has g[...]

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Demonstration on stealing cookies via Cross-Site Scripting

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Learning everything about hacking starts now..

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Today is the first day I will be tracking my progress using a blog format. This worked extremely well for learning web development and I…

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Ransomware: What is it? Why are attacks on the rise? How can they be prevented?

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75 Best Books to learn Hacking for Beginner, Intermediate and Expert

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In this article, I will present you the different books by level of knowledge to learn cybersecurity.

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Freelance pen testers, what does your setup look like?
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What kind of hardware are you using? What licenses were worth purchasing? Did you use any outside legal help with structuring contracts? Just trying to get a generalized picture of how freelancers operate in this field. Thanks! submitted by /u/coffeecakeordeath (https://www.reddit.com/user/coffeecakeordeath)
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The shellcoders handbook

Anyone using this book for infosec institute's cert? I'm using it and wondering if anyone wanted to get together to study and share notes and ideas.

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laptop sometimes makes a beep, but it hasn't a hardware beeper?

hey, this sounds maybe weird but.. every 1-2 months, my laptop makes a "beep" noise and a click right after. it is coming from the right side of the laptop where usually a cd drive would be (but it has none). but my laptop don't has a hardware beeper build in and i'm struggle to find out what this could be.

it mostlye / often happens while using qtbittorrent while downloading files, so my assumption is that it has to do with my harddrive.. but i'm not sure if thats the case and what it could mean.

the weird aspect of it is, that it only happens a single time and then its silent for a long time (1-3 months?). it doesn't seem to matter if i download large files or not or if i do a lot of things on my laptop.. so its really random.

my laptop is hanging 24/7 (while in use) on the charging cable so i think the power shouldn't be an issue.

does anyone have a idea what this could be? its often really jumpscaring me because it happens so apprupt without any warning.

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New Zoom Hack Lets Hackers Compromise Windows and Its Login Password

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How to hack a surefeed microchip pet feeder?

I have two cats. One is a fat ass, one is eating responsibly. I bought a connected feeder with a microchip reader and a scale.

I want to be able to program the feeder such that a given cat isn't allowed to eat more than X grams of food a day, and not more than Y grams of food in the last hour.

The only thing it does right now is to allow access to a set of chips, without quantity or time regulation. Then it notifies me of the time and quantity, thanks to a hub.

How would I reprogram it? Where do I find ressources about the subject? I can imagine it involving a Pi, opening the feeder and hooking up the pi to it somehow. And then, I'd have to figure out the API to control the thing and get access to the required data?

Looks like a lot of fun but I don't know where to begin

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I'm paranoid because every time I sign into my email on google chrome it's signing me into "Person 2". Why am I not being signed into "Person 1"? Was I hacked?

Just to elaborate a bit more.. When I click on the little head icon at the top right of the browser (under the red X), it shows me signed into "Person 2". BUT there isn't even a "Person 1" listed. There's only "Person 2" and "Guest". Is this how it's supposed to be? Why would there be a "Person 2" and not a "Person 1"?

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Phantom - A multi-platform HTTP(S) Reverse Shell Server and Client in Python 3

Phantom is a multi-platform HTTP(S) Reverse Shell server and client in Python 3. Binaries for Linux and Windows platforms can be built through an embedded script that executes PyInstaller.

Reverse shells can be established through HTTP or HTTPS. The certificates used for HTTPS can be auto-generated by Phantom or supplied by the user.

Phantom includes a helper shell script that enables fast generation of self-signed certificates for use of both servers and clients. After generation, the server and certificate authority certificates required for encrypted connections are bundled in the binaries for portability and ease of execution.

Check it out on GitHub at https://github.com/EONRaider/BCA-Phantom

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