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

How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood?

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Facial recognition is having a rough time of it lately. Just six months ago, people were excited about Apple allowing you to open your phone just by looking at it. A year ago, Facebook users joyfully tagged their friends […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good – Iranians hitting email flaw

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An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.

The US Cyber Command has issued an alert that hackers have been actively going after CVE-2017-11774. The flaw is a sandbox escape bug in […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

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Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court.

Thompson, a resident of Utah, will also have […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners’ smartphones

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Authorities in a tumultuous region of China are ordering tourists and other visitors to install spyware on their smartphones, it is claimed.

The New York Times reported today that guards working the border with Krygyzstan, in China’s Xinjiang region, have insisted visitors […]

By |July 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying $460,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers

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Lake City, Florida paid out a bitcoin ransom worth $460,000 to hackers who disabled the city’s computer systems with sophisticated ransomware last month, hot on the heels of a $600,000 ransom paid out in similar circumstances by Riviera Beach, Florida just weeks later. Now, […]

By |July 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ

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Staff were evacuated today at Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters after a package believed to contain the chemical weapon sarin was delivered to the antisocial network.

Buildings were cleared out at the Menlo Park campus after the parcel triggered sarin alarms: […]

By |July 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Don’t tell Alice and Bob: Security maven Bruce Schneier is leaving IBM

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Infosec veteran Bruce Schneier has said he’ll step down as a “special advisor” to IBM’s security business to, in part, focus his time on teaching the next generation of security pros.

Schneier said he also wanted to focus on work […]

By |July 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Yuge U-turn: Prez Trump walks back on Huawei ban… at least the tech sector seems to think so

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President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke the ban, or, er, grant some licences to American companies supplying components and services to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.

Speaking after meeting the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, Trump said: “American companies that […]

By |July 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

UK’s MoD is helping itself to cops’ fingerprint database ‘unlawfully’, rules biometrics chief

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The Ministry of Defence has been searching the police national fingerprint database without a “clearly defined lawful basis,” the UK’s biometrics commissioner has said.

In his annual report (PDF) filed today, Paul Wiles warned that inter-government searching of databases should be properly […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

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Microsoft’s transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that is the official linux-distros mailing list.

The purpose of the linux-distros list is used by Linux distributions to privately […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|