Ashiq JA

Ashiq JA is a Cyber Security Researcher and Writer passionate about Web Application Security, Security research using Machine Learning and Big Data, Deep web, technologies and Threat Analysis. He is currently working as a Security Consultant. He believes in knowledge sharing as the best source for information security awareness. Follow Ashiq JA on Twitter @AshiqJA to get the latest updates on infosec.
Ashiq JA

Articles from Ashiq JA

Hacking

Anatomy of an APT attack: Step by step approach

September 12, 2018

This article will explore the technique, design and the inner workings of an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attack. It will also relate various stages of a

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Management, compliance & auditing

Challenges Faced By CISOs: Balancing Security versus Manpower

September 28, 2015

Cybersecurity is not about buying the latest security monitoring and automation tools to solve the day-to-day problems. Government and banking organizati

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Healthcare information security

Hackers Selling Healthcare Data in the Black Market

July 27, 2015

With the drastic increase in Cyber Crime, the healthcare industry is a potential target for data hungry hackers. Patient safety may not directly relate to da

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Application security

HTTP/2: Enforcing Strong Encryption as the De Facto Standard

July 7, 2015

HTTP Protocol, which serves as the communication channel for HTTP requests and responses on the Web, has received its first major revision since introduction

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Insider threat

Insider vs. outsider threats: Identify and prevent

June 8, 2015

In my last article, we discussed on a step-by-step approach on APT attacks. The origin of any kind of cyber-attack is through an external or an internal sour

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General security

The importance of cyber hygiene in cyberspace

April 30, 2015

The drastic increase in the frequency of cyber attacks on financial systems and the healthcare industry (both large and small scale industries) have raised c

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Cryptography

DNA cryptography and information security

April 1, 2015

What is cryptography? Cryptography is the science of study of secret writing. It helps in encrypting a plain text message to make it unreadable. It is a ver

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General security

Digital Dark Age: Information Explosion and Data Risks

March 23, 2015

"Old formats of documents that we've created or presentations may not be readable by the latest version of the software because backwards compatibility is n

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General security

Digital footprints and privacy concerns

March 11, 2015

"It is too difficult to give exact statistics on the amount of data people leave, but confirmed every time we perform an online action, we are contributing

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