Ethical Hacking

 Secure Your Cloud System Today According to Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), over 70% of the world’s businesses now operate – at least in part – on the cloud. With benefits like lower fixed costs, higher flexibility, automatic software updates, increased collaboration, and the freedom to work from anywhere, 70 percent isn’t a big surprise. Still, the cloud has its share of security issues. Recently the “ Cloud Security Spotlight Report ” showed that “90 percent of organizations are very or moderately concerned about public cloud security.” These concerns run the gamut from vulnerability to hijacked accounts to malicious insiders to full-scale data breaches. Although cloud services have ushered in a new age of transmitting and storing data, many companies are still hesitant or make the move without a clear plan for security in place. We’ll show you a big picture view of the top 10 security concerns for cloud-based services you should be aware of. ...

An Introduction to Burp Suite – Part One Burp suite provides a solid platform for launching a web application security  assessment. In this guide we’re going to introduce the features of Burp and how you  can use them to discover web application vulnerabilities. The Basics Burp is available for download from www.portswigger.net, or you can find a copy in  most popular security tool distributions, including Backtrack and Kali. Burp is a GUI application written in Java, and distributed as a ‘.jar’ file - so it is  possible to fire it up by opening the ‘.jar’ with a double click. However, I tend to  prefer to open the Burp GUI via the command line, as that allows me to provide  Burp with more system memory to improve its performance. java -jar –Xmx2048mb /Applications/burpsuite_pro_v1.5.jar Running the above command from the command line opens Burp with 2 GB’s (2048  MB’s) of memory allocated. There are two versions of Burp,...