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How to Find Last Login/Logout on Linux System

In Linux/Unix like operating systems everything is logged. Many valuable log files are automatically created for you by Linux. You can find them in your /var/log directory.  This folder contains logs related to different services and applications. In this folder apart from other logs files we have some files such as utmp , wtmp and btmp . These files contains all the details about login’s and logout’s which are from local as well as from remote systems and system status such as uptime etc.

Thinking Information Security is Someone's Job

There are lot of buzz words related to cyber security in terms of technology, processes and regulations in terms of compliance but very less is talked about the people i.e. human factor.  moreover it's the people who use these technologies and data, who develops and follow these processes and regulations and hence its utmost important element in this trilogy PPT (People Process Technology).

CapTipper – Malicious HTTP Traffic Explorer

CapTipper is a Python tool independently developed by one of checkpoint researchers, Omri Herscovici, which is used to analyze, explore and revive HTTP malicious traffic. It provides the security researcher with easy access to the files and understanding of the network flow, and is useful for researching exploits, as well as various pre-conditions, versions, obfuscations, plugins and shellcodes.

What is Password Manager?

Why do we need a password manager? Today is the world of social media, online business trading, online banking hence creation of different password became a necessasity and remembering them become nightmare. Writing these passwords on pieee of paper and pasting those paper on desk became a common practice which became easy target for cyber criminals to sucessfuly launch cyber attack, credential theft, financial fraud etc. Having a universal user name and password is impossible .  As every site or service has its own password requirements and hence its practically it is hard to keep track of all your different passwords.  Help improve security posture by providing a secure way for password storage rather than storing passwords in plain text compromising security posture.  It’s unreasonable to expect any person to remember complex passwords.  Its better to have something rather than nothing.  A Password Manager is a software application that allows users to securely store and organize pa

TCPING - Cousin Brother of NMAP

TCPING is an utility written in GO language that operates similarly to PING however it works over a tcp port, This utility can be very useful for troubleshooting network connectivity and performance issue at Layer 3 and Layer 4. Support Windows, Darwin, Linux, Android, ios, Freebsd, Netbsd, Openbsd, Aix, Dragonfly, illumos, Plan9, Solaris and other operating systems.