Information Technology, Control, Audit and Security Experience

Computer technology has constantly improved over the years. Hard drives with the moving disk had dominated the tech scene for decades before this new threat called Solid State Drive (SSD) came along to ouster it out of business. Its advantages are very distinct; It is super fast thus you will not get that time lag in fetching data or that slow boot-up sequence. No moving parts means the possibility of damaging your drive in the event of a fall has been eradicated. However there are still issues with its reliability and consumers are still trying to get assurance that it is rugged while ensuring safety of data. Additionally they also need assurance that it will provide value for its apparent high cost. Lets now take some time to look at this to see how rugged SSDs are and their life expectancy looks like.

In this post I will be showing you how to perform basic hacking using the Metasploit framework. Metasploit is a penetration testing software that provides information about security vulnerabilities which aids in penetration testing. We will be attacking a virtual machine (VM) called Metasploitable Linux. Metasploitable is an intentionally vulnerable Linux virtual machine. This VM can be used to conduct security training, test security tools, and practice common penetration testing techniques. CAUTION: It is important to note that these exploits should in no way be attempted on any production environment without executive permission . So lets start.....

Ever wondered why double or single quotes require double taps on the keyboard in order to display? I have always had this nagging issue and wondered if it was a bug in my operating system. I later discovered it was not a bug but was designed for a reason. I will attempt to explain this and show you how to fix it. If your keyboard layout was set to US English International, your quote key would require a double tap for it to print to the screen (strange?). The reason behind this is to allow the usage of accents like the Umlaut.   Umlaut?? An Umlaut is a mark ¨ used over a vowel, as in ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter (Hmm....Please don’t ask me to explain. I copied this from Here ). It is quite popular in computer usage especially in Germany and other countries where hyphens are required. To see what I am talking about let’s do a little exercise: Note: You can only try this if your computer behaves in a similar fashion. ...

Have you at some time purchased a flash drive  or memory card that always stored corrupt data? You paid for a 64gig memory card and all you stored in it is simply just got corrupted. I have been a victim several times even with reputable retailers. These counterfeit flash storages are low capacity in nature, devices that have been maliciously altered so that they appear to have much more capacity than its original. An example is the 64 gig memory card I purchased which ended up having actual capacity of 2gig. So I actually paid for 2gig. Now I didn't get to know this on time because I actually copied a video file inside it as a test which checked out fine. The video file size was 1.5gb. I was able to play the video with no issue of corruption. Thus I "Assumed" the flash was genuine. Boy was I wrong. Later in the week I decided to do a major backup of my mobile phone since I was purchasing another one. After the backup, I formatted ...