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Understanding the CrowdStrike Incident of July 2024

July 24, 2024

In July 2024, the digital world was rocked by a significant event: the CrowdStrike incident. In this blog post, we’ll delve into what happened, why it happened, and how the issue is being resolved. This incident, involving CrowdStrike’s Falcon software, caused disruptions to over 8 million Windows computers globally, impacting critical services and daily operations … More Understanding the CrowdStrike Incident of July 2024

Understanding Cryptography: A Comprehensive Overview

June 13, 2024

Cryptography might seem uninteresting or daunting if not properly introduced. For those not involved in networking, network security, or security engineering, this topic can be quite challenging. However, understanding cryptography is crucial in today’s digital world. Drawing from my own experience as an electronics and communication engineering graduate, I know that even with a technical … More Understanding Cryptography: A Comprehensive Overview

OTP tools and the risk of DLL Sideloading

June 7, 2024

Recently i was doing some research around OTP softwares much like Google Authenticator or MS Authenticator and came across the topic of DLL Sideloading. Though this topic is quite old, i thought it is good to share me learning outcome. Okay, in simple terms, imagine you have a secret code that can open a magical … More OTP tools and the risk of DLL Sideloading

Optus Outage Incident – Root Cause Analysis

November 15, 2023

There were four breaches, one hacking and the recent outage believed to be some configuration mishap while doing a software upgrade, all in past 5 years making big news for Optus (see reference1-5). Around 4.05am on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Optus experienced a widespread service outage, affecting a significant number of its customers. The disruption … More Optus Outage Incident – Root Cause Analysis

CISSP Series A-Z – Domain1 Complete

July 28, 2022

This is the running YouTube Playlist i am working on to cover complete CISSP syllabus in my way of explaining. Subscribe to it if you find this useful.

CISSP Notes: Malicious Codes and Application Attacks

December 28, 2021

Cryptographic Modes of Operations

December 23, 2021

Cryptographic modes of operations. How to memorise Key exams sensitive points? In this video i am discussing Cryptographic Modes of Operations and how to memorise it quickly. A big thanks to my friend Tariq Ali Shaikh in illustrating the idea discussed in this table.

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