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Web Development Services

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  Full-cycle website design and development  Creating a website from scratch, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, quality assurance as well as maintenance and support.  Redesign Porting your legacy website, including all the data, to a new, modern solution (it can be another content management system) with a slick and responsive user interface.  Web application development and integration Enriching your website with out-of-the-box and custom social networking apps, payment solutions, advanced analytics, and other tools to increase user engagement.  Migration to the cloud  Moving your existing website and applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other cloud services to improve scalability and administration and lessen costs. Maintenance and support Creating new features and fixing bugs;  Enhancing scalability and performance to welcome the growing number of visitors and data; Improving ...

Ransomware and how can you defend your business from it

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  Ransomware is a kind of malware used by cybercriminals to stop users from accessing their systems or files; the cybercriminals then threaten to leak, destroy or withhold sensitive information unless a ransom is paid. Ransomware attacks can target either the data held on computer systems (known as locker ransomware) or devices (crypto-ransomware). In both instances, once a ransom is paid, threat actors typically provide victims with a decryption key or tool to unlock their data or device, though this is not guaranteed. Oliver Pinson-Roxburgh, CEO of Defense.com, the all-in-one cybersecurity platform, shares knowledge and advice in this article on how ransomware works, how damaging it can be, and how your business can mitigate ransomware attacks from occurring. Ransomware attack comprise There are three key elements to a ransomware attack: Access - In order to deploy malware to encrypt files and gain control, cybercriminals need to initially gain access to an organization's sy...

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a wireless security software suite. It consists of a network packet analyzer, a WEP network cracker, and WPA / WPA2-PSK along with another set of wireless auditing tools. Here are the most popular tools included in the Aircrack-ng suite. read more

Netcat

Netcat is a Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using   TCP   or   UDP   protocol.  Following tasks can be done easily with Netcat: Connect to a port of a target host. Listen to a certain port for any inbound connections. Send data across client and server once the connection is established. Transfer files across the network once the connection is established. Can execute programs and scripts of the client on the server and vice versa. Can Provide remote shell access of server to a client where shell commands can be executed. read more

WPScan

WPScan is a security scanner designed for testing the security of websites built using WordPress. WPScan was developed using the Ruby programming language and then released in the first version in 2019. The WPScan security scanner is primarily intended to be used by WordPress administrators and security teams to assess the security status of their WordPress installations. It is used to scan WordPress websites for known vulnerabilities both in WordPress and commonly used WordPress plugins and themes. The code base for WPScan is licensed under GPLv3. WPScan is a WordPress black box scanner. The goal for using WPScan is to execute the activities of a real threat actor. WPScan does not require access to the source code or the WordPress dashboard.  WPScan uses the wpvulndb.com vulnerability database which is a comprehensive list of WordPress core, plugin, and theme vulnerabilities. Frequently running WPScan is important to make sure that plug-ins and themes have no exposed vulnerabiliti...

Skipfish

  Skipfish  is a free, open-source Automated Penetration Testing tool available on GitHub made for security researchers.  Skipfish is used for  information gathering  and testing the security of websites and web servers. Skipfish is the easiest and one of the best tools for penetration testing. It provides many integrated tools to perform penetration testing on the target system. This tool is also known as an active  web application security reconnaissance  tool. This tool functions and makes a map on the console of the targeted site using recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes.  This tool gives us all the security checks that are active in the domain. Lastly, this tool generates a report which can be further used for security assessments. Features and Uses of Skipfish tools : Skipfish is Open source intelligence tool. Skipfish can track enumeration. Skipfish is a fully automated tool. Skipfish has more than 15 modules that can be used for pe...

Burp Suite

Burp Suite contains various tools for performing different testing tasks. The tools operate effectively together, and you can pass interesting requests between tools as your work progresses, to carry out different actions. Target  - This tool contains detailed information about your target applications, and lets you drive the process of testing for vulnerabilities. Proxy  - This is an intercepting web proxy that operates as a man-in-the-middle between the end browser and the target web application. It lets you intercept, inspect and modify the raw traffic passing in both directions. Scanner  - This is an advanced web vulnerability scanner, which can automatically crawl content and audit for numerous types of vulnerabilities. Intruder  - This is a powerful tool for carrying out automated customized attacks against web applications. It is highly configurable and can be used to perform a wide range of tasks to make your testing faster and more effective. Repeater ...