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In Linux operating systems, background processes are referred to as “daemons.” Daemons are very useful to cybersecurity professionals in helping to unobtrusively capture activity on a monitored network. This post will demonstrate a Python script that runs a simple daemon as well as the management and troubleshooting of the process with the supervisor program. Here…

As long as your device has the necessary resources, virtual machines are an excellent way to run multiple operating systems on the same computer without the hassle of dual booting. There are several options for VM hypervisors available to consumers, but today I’ll be going with VMWare’s Fusion hypervisor as I am working on a…

There have been some sizable and well-publicized data breaches in recent years, but in both categories, the Equifax hack of 2017 is hard to top. Given the scope of the credit reporting giant’s data collection activities on Americans, nearly 150 million people had their personal information stolen. For many individuals, this was the first time…