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Dimitris Gkoutzamanis
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Dimitris is an Information Technology and Cybersecurity professional with more than 20 years of experience in designing, building and maintaining efficient and secure IT infrastructures.
Among others, he is a certified: CISSP, CISA, CISM, ITIL, COBIT and PRINCE2, but his wide set of knowledge and technical management capabilities go beyond these certifications. He likes acquiring new skills on penetration testing, cloud technologies, virtualization, network security, IoT and many more.
The Evolution of Pentest Frameworks: From Past to Present
Introduction
The importance of penetration testing in cybersecurity
Penetration testing plays a crucial role in cybersecurity for several reasons:
Identifying Vulnerabilities: A pentest helps security professionals identify...
How to Protect Yourself from GPT-4 Scammers: Tips to Avoid Crypto Phishing Scams
The launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 has created a buzz among artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Unfortunately, scammers have also taken notice of this and...
Free Decryption Tool Helps Hundreds of Victims Recover Files from Modified Conti Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a decryption tool that could help hundreds of victims who have fallen prey to a modified version of the Conti...
Protecting Your Phone from the Exynos Modem Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know
In late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero discovered a series of vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems produced by Samsung Semiconductor. These vulnerabilities pose a...
Urgent Warning: Act Now to Patch Newly Discovered Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook, the popular email client, is in the news again, but not for good reasons. Security researchers have identified a zero-day vulnerability in...
Protecting Your Investments: OpenSea NFT Marketplace Vulnerability and the Importance of NFT Security
The OpenSea NFT marketplace is one of the largest platforms for buying and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) - unique digital assets that are verified...
Beware of DoS Attacks on Cisco Routers: Cisco Releases Critical Security Updates
Cisco has released critical security updates to address a high-severity DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability that affects its IOS XR software. This vulnerability tracked...
Malware Uses AI to Avoid Detection
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cybercriminals have been developing new exploits that can evade even the most sophisticated cybersecurity products.
The latest...
Protect Yourself from Bitwarden’s Risky Autofill Feature
Bitwarden, a popular open-source password management service, has a potentially dangerous security flaw that could allow threat actors to steal login credentials through malicious...
Massive Data Breach at AT&T: 9 Million Wireless Customers’ Account Details Compromised
Telecommunications giant AT&T has confirmed that nearly nine million of its wireless customers' account details were accessed by unauthorized individuals after a vendor's network...
