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by Miguel Martinez | 05.02.2025 | 14 min read

How to Perform Penetration Testing for Mobile Apps

Mobile security is more critical than ever as mobile apps become essential to how businesses engage with customers and employees. But one minor glitch, and hackers could snatch sensitive data in a fla...

by Cory Holmes | 04.28.2025 | 13 min read

Software Penetration Testing: All You Need to Know

Hackers are constantly finding new ways to break into your systems. Sitting back and hoping your defenses hold is not enough anymore; penetration testing helps you find weak spots before they do. Whet...

by Cory Holmes | 04.25.2025 | 8 min read

Identifying and Safeguarding PII: Essential Steps for Data Protection

In the digital landscape, personally identifiable information (PII) is a prime target for cybercriminals. As technology advances, so do the tactics of threat actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities ...

by Cory Holmes | 04.23.2025 | 10 min read

Regular Expressions (Regex) for Beginners: The Power of Search and Replace

Unlocking the Magic of Search and Replace Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through a document, trying to locate and replace a specific word? Then you probably remember the game-changin...

by Stephen Carabajal | 02.03.2021 | 9 min read

Simplifying Patch Management with Ansible AWX

In this article, I will highlight an open-source tool that you can use to fully automate your patch management. The tool is called AWX, and it utilizes the Ansible framework.

by Ameen Chowdhary | 02.03.2021 | 7 min read

Typosquatting and Mitigating its Consequences

Have you ever opened up a web browser and typed in the URL: https://www.goggle.com by accident?

by Cory Holmes | 02.03.2021 | 10 min read

Incident Response Using Volatility Framework

It’s 2021, and Cybersecurity has been a hot item on everybody’s list. Whether at home or in the corporate world, our technology is constantly evolving, and with the latest security patches and operati...

by Miguel Martinez | 02.02.2021 | 10 min read

Bit Errors and Cosmic Rays

With poor security practices being all but commonplace in our world, it is only natural that we associate errors with being strictly human errors. Sometimes organizations do a terrible job of securing...