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

Banks Fearing North Korea Hacking Prepare Defenses: Cyber Experts

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Credits: Wired

FOR THE LAST two years, America’s cybersecurity relationship with China has been held up as a triumph of digital diplomacy: Since the two countries signed an agreement not to hack each others’ private sector companies for commercial gain in late 2015, that […]

By |November 2nd, 2017|Cyber News|

8 tips on how to protect your WordPress website in 2017 – Hamed Pour

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Credits: Owdt, Author: Hamed Pour
Why WordPress is dominant
WordPress, launched in 2003, has become the most widely used full content management system in the world. It is an open source, community-based system and therefore entirely free.

Ever-improving template options, plug-ins, SEO capability and client […]

By |November 2nd, 2017|Cyber News|

The International Affairs Association website was just hacked by a Turkish nationalist group

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Credits: TheDP

A Penn student group says an international cyber organization hacked their website last month, replacing their homepage with a Turkish nationalist image.

The International Affairs Association runs a blog called “The Consul,” which they said was recently hacked by a Turkish […]

By |November 2nd, 2017|Cyber News|

Microsoft employee installs Chrome mid-presentation because Edge keeps crashing

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Credits: TheNextWeb

This is truly half-brutal, half-hilarious. A Microsoft employee was forced to pause his Azure presentation in the middle of a live demo session in order to install Google’s Chrome… because the company’s own Edge browser kept crashing.

But here is the best part: […]

By |November 2nd, 2017|Cyber News|

NotPetya hackers likely behind BadRabbit attack: researchers

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Credits: Reuters

Technical indicators suggest a cyber attack which hit Russia and other countries this week was carried out by hackers behind a similar but bigger assault on Ukraine in June, security researchers who analyzed the two campaigns said on Wednesday.

Russia-based cyber […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|

Blockchain will make things even harder for blackhat hackers

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Credits: TheNextWeb

Hacking can be fun. It’s also educational. And to be clear, I’m not talking about the steal-your-stuff type of hacking.

I’m referring to taking things to the extreme — finding interesting ways to solve things, discovering secret entryways, maximizing hidden features, […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|

Recommended by ‘Dark Overlord’ claims credit for hacking US schools, threatening students

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Credits: Washington Post

A group calling itself “Dark Overlord” says it has hacked into US school districts in several states, releasing student data and threatening violence.

In an apparent reference to the hackers, the US Education Department issued a warning of a “new threat” […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|

New bill could let companies retaliate against hackers

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Credits: CNN

Dubbed the “hack back” bill, it was introduced last week to allow businesses to hack the hackers who’ve infiltrated their computer networks.

Called the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act, it amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act anti-hacking law so […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|

Alleged hacker ‘used army of 9,000 ‘zombie’ computers to attack websites such as Skype, Google and Pokemon’

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Credits: Dailymail UK

A man has been charged with using an army of 9,000 ‘zombie’ computers to attack websites such as Skype, Google and Pokemon.

Alex Bessell, 21, is accused of using them to orchestrate Distributed Denial of Service (DdOS) attacks on several major online firms […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|

NSA hacking code lifted from a personal computer in U.S.: Kaspersky

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Credits: cisomag

Moscow-based multinational cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab on October 25 said that it obtained suspected National Security Agency (NSA) hacking code from a personal computer in the U.S. During the review of file’s contents, a Kaspersky analyst discovered it contained the source […]

By |October 30th, 2017|Cyber News|