SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readWhat Is IoT Malware?Your phone isn't the only device connected to the internet. Cameras, smart TVs, routers, watches, speakers, printers, appliances, and even industrial equipment can communicate over networks. Together,00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readWhat Is Browser Hijacking?You open your browser to search for something. But suddenly, your homepage has changed. Your searches are being redirected somewhere unexpected. Strange advertisements appear. Websites you never asked00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 4 min readWhat Is Information-Stealing Malware?Your computer knows more about you than you might realize. Passwords. Emails. Documents. Browser activity. Account details. Personal information. All of that data can become valuable to an attacker. A00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 3 min readWhat Is Dropper Malware?Sometimes malware doesn't arrive alone. Hidden inside one malicious program can be additional components, waiting to be released onto the victim's system. That is the basic idea behind a dropper. Drop00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readWhat Is Adware?Have you ever opened your browser and been greeted by endless pop-up advertisements? Or perhaps your homepage suddenly changed, new toolbars appeared, or websites became flooded with ads that weren't 00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 9 min readEverything Passed. Then the End-to-End Ping Failed.I dedicated my final year project to an unsung hero. Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet lieutenant colonel who prevented nuclear war by deciding not to trust a system that told him it was certain. My superv00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 19 · 8 min readI Built What I Thought Was a Secure App. Here's Everything I Got Wrong.During the final year of my undergraduate studies, my team submitted a cloud-based banking application as part of our Network and Cloud Security coursework. We had competition. Two other teams were bu00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 14 min readOperationalising It: Making Prisma Cloud Actually UsefulAfter the Rollout: The Work That Actually Starts Deploying Prisma Cloud took months. Making it operational took longer. By the time CWPP was live across OCI and GCP and CSPM was covering all four clou00
AFAeon Flex / Splicer Scorninchaincoder.hashnode.dev·Jul 6 · 11 min readThe Backdoor in Your Browser: Why You Are the Product (And How to Opt Out) You did not get hacked. You clicked “Agree and Continue.” That clean little icon in your dock, Chrome, Safari, Edge, Arc, whatever aesthetic you chose this quarter, feels like infrastructure. Like plu00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jun 26 · 17 min readThree Vendors, One Verdict: Evaluating CSPM and CWPP at Enterprise ScaleA Note Before This Goes Further Everything in this article reflects a specific environment: an OCI-majority estate, thirty compartments, fifty-plus business units, and compliance obligations across IS00
