Sadik Shaikh

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About Sadik Shaikh

Mr. Sadik Shaikh is a Technology Evangelist and associated with numerous government and private organizations in Information Security and Cyber Forensics since past sixteen years. He carries a robust technical experience in VAPT for Network, Cloud, Scada, Mobile and Web Applications. He has conducted more than 300+ successful pentest projects. He is acknowledged and listed in "Hackers Hall Of Fame" for finding several security flaws in Department of Defense (DoD), European Cert, Netherland Cert, United Nations, NCIIPC, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Yahoo, Twitter, AOL, Amazon, Accenture, Intel, Dell, Lenovo, Mozilla, Opera, Oracle, Mastercard, Western Union, SAP, Sony, Sophos, Rapid7, Alien Vault, eBay, OLX, ISC2, SANS, Blackberry, Vodafone, HTC, AT&T, Nokia, Netgear, Huawei and several of the other 50 plus top Fortune companies. He is an expert and consultant for the Police Department and Defence in solving Cyber Terrorism Cases. He is on CEH Review Board, ECSA/LPT Review Board, CND Review Board, and CAST Review Board. He is MPhil, MCA, MBA(IT), PG Diploma in Cyber Security, PG Diploma in Forensic Science and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cyber Security. He is certified for CCNA, CCNA Security, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, SCJP, CCI, CEI, CND, CTIA, CEH, ECSA, CHFI, CAST 611, CAST 612, CISM, ISO 27001:2013, Certified Block Chain Expert. He is awarded with BugCrowd MVP and has trained top corporate personnel of Symantec, Quick Heal, BMC Software, Wipro, Cognizant, Syntel, Infosys, Intel, Dell, Fujitsu, Atos, HCL, Accenture, Zensar, Cybage, Samsung, TCS, L&T, John Deere and other 50 plus top Fortune companies. He actively works with DRDO, National Defence Academy - Pune, Pune Police, CID & ATS - Maharashtra. Connect him @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadikshaikh

South Africans shivering in the dark after file-scrambling nasty hits Johannesburg power biz

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The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.

Utility company City Power today confirmed news reports that file-scrambling malware had invaded and knackered its systems.

That infection basically prevents […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Backdoors won’t weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he’s right. They won’t – they’ll fscking torpedo it

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FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.

During a session at the International Conference on Cyber Security […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Sanctions-hit Russian developers fingered for crafting ‘Monokle’ Android snoopware

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A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin’s interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.

Researchers at security house Lookout today reported  that St Petersburg-based Special Technology Centre (STC) […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Man arrested over UK’s Lancaster University data breach hack allegations

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Cops have cuffed a 25-year-old man from Bradford on suspicion of committing Computer Misuse Act crimes after Lancaster University suffered a data breach affecting more than 12,000 students and applicants.

In a statement the National Crime Agency said: “Officers from […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

With more hints dropped online on how to exploit BlueKeep, you’ve patched that Windows RDP flaw, right?

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Vital clues on how to exploit the notorious Windows RDP bug, aka CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, and hijack vulnerable boxes, emerged online this week.

The growing number of hints can be used by folks to develop working code that attacks Microsoft’s […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

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Analysis If the cops and Feds can’t read people’s encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit, US Attorney General William Barr has told the technology world.

While speaking today in New York, Barr demanded eavesdropping […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students

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Lancaster University – which offers a GCHQ-accredited degree in security – has been struck by a “sophisticated and malicious phishing attack” that resulted in the leak of around 12,500 wannabe students’ personal data.

In a statement published yesterday evening, the […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Dodgy vids can hijack PCs via VLC security flaw, US, Germany warn. Software’s makers not app-y with that claim

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VLC is said to be once again vulnerable to remote-code execution – meaning a malicious video opened by the software could potentially crash the media player, or joyride it to run malware on the host machine.

However, the developers of […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

It’s 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

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On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.

The July patch batch addresses vulnerabilities in iOS, MacOS, Safari, watchOS, and tvOS, though many of the updates are for common […]

By |July 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Israel’s NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They’ve misunderstood

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Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has denied it developed malware that can steal user data from cloud services run by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

The Financial Times reported this morning that NSO’s Pegasus malware, which was previously known to be capable […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|