Dimitris Gkoutzamanis

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How To Check If Your Phone Has Been Hacked

Is your device behaving weirdly? Outgoing calls you did not make, your device is getting hot without reason? Maybe its time to check if your phone has been hacked.

Why Do Data Breaches Happen

We have gotten used to seeing news every day of sensitive data being exposed to unauthorized parties, but do you know why do data breaches happen?

Hunt a Username on Social Media with Sherlock

Many users register themselves on websites using the same username. If you are performing an investigation on a person, and especially if you know a username or handle they are usually using online, you may hunt for usernames on social media platforms with Sherlock.

Web Dashboard for your Nmap Scans

WebMap is a web dashboard for your nmap scans. This tool, which is free, can provide you with more management capabilities of your scan results.

How To Find Domains Owned by a Company

During a black box, or grey box penetration testing engagement for a company, one of the main things you will need to find domains owned by the company.

What is a Botnet

Many cyber attacks are carried out by malicious actors with the use of "Botnets". But what is a botnet? Botnet is short for "robot-network".

Find Web Server Vulnerabilities With Nikto

Nikto is an open source scanner capable of scanning for over 6700 items to detect any misconfigurations on web servers like Apache, Nginx, Litespeed etc. as well as discovery of exposed files, user enumeration and outdated components.

How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings

Zoom has around 300 million daily meeting participants! It also has security issues like "Zoom bombings" where uninvited guests may show up at meetings and another more "creepy" vulnerability which left millions of users exposed, which offered access to user's cameras and microphones.

Google Warns for Hacked Cloud Accounts Used for Crypto Mining

recently launched Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) provided specific insights, such as when malicious hackers exploit improperly-secured cloud instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the system—sometimes within 22 seconds of being compromised.

Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones

Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones on behalf of governments. An Israeli firm called NSO Group, provided software to government agencies and law enforcement that enables them to hack iPhones and read the data on them, including messages and other communications.