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Hello and welcome. My name is John Strand and in this video, we’re going to be talking about Base64 encoding and decoding. Now the reason why we’re talking about it is once again we have the BHIS Cyber Range for our customers and friends and this is just basically a video to walk people through some of the challenges that utilize Base64. Now the reason why Base64 actually exists is kind of interesting. Whenever you are transferring binary data or you’re transferring data with special characters, it can be encoded and it can be garbled, especially whenever you’re dealing with…

When planning for a zero trust approach to cybersecurity, agency technology teams need to keep a certain axiom in mind: Commercial cloud service providers secure their clouds, but the customer must ensure the security of what it hosts in the cloud. “The clouds really don’t offer a comprehensive solution for looking at security risk in the cloud,” said Chris Saunders, public sector solutions engineering lead at Wiz. When agencies initially focused on zero trust, “it was very much about the devices the government used to access applications — the endpoints, the phones — very much focused on that use case,”…

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Hello and welcome. My name is John Strand and in this video, we’re going to be talking about some very basic Google searches. Now we’ve got to take a couple of steps back and talk about what Google actually does. Google goes through and it indexes all the different texts and images and things they can find on the internet. Once I had somebody describe Google’s entire business model is just creating a reverse index of the internet, and that may or may not be true, but the point is, it’s an incredibly powerful tool for security professionals to potentially…

Windows administrators from numerous organizations report widespread account lockouts triggered by false positives in the rollout of a new Microsoft Entra ID’s “leaked credentials” detection app called MACE. These alerts and lockouts began last night, with some admins believing they were false positives as the accounts have unique passwords that are not used on any other sites or applications. Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, is a cloud-based identity and access management service that helps organizations manage user identities and secure access to resources. In a Reddit thread posted early this morning, Windows admins reported receiving multiple alerts from…

Attackers exploited SonicWall SMA appliances since January 2025 Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2025 Threat actors are actively exploiting a remote code execution flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances since January 2025. Arctic Wolf researchers warn that threat actors actively exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20035 (CVSS score of 7.1), in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) since at least January 2025. The vulnerability is an OS Command Injection Vulnerability in the SMA100 management interface. A remote authenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to inject arbitrary commands as a ‘nobody’ user, which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. “Improper…

Kaspersky researchers report the reappearance of MysterySnail RAT, a malware linked to Chinese IronHusky APT, targeting Mongolia and Russia after years of silence. Learn about its new tactics and modular design. Cybercriminals are constantly developing new malware for cyberattacks. These malicious tools have varying lifespans; some malware families have been tracked for decades, while others vanish from public awareness relatively quickly. In 2021, Kaspersky researchers discovered one such short-lived implant during their investigation of the CVE-2021-40449 zero-day vulnerability, which they dubbed MysterySnail RAT. At the time of its discovery, MysterySnail RAT was linked to IronHusky APT, a Chinese-speaking threat group…

Android malware continues to cause significant financial losses annually. The sophistication and scale of infections continue to be a serious concern. We’ve compiled the latest Android malware stats for 2025 so you can discover these alarming smartphone malware trends. Understanding the latest trends in Android malware is crucial. Each year, these threats continue to evolve and impact users worldwide. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the latest Android malware statistics for 2025, designed to help you identify potential threats and protect your Android devices. What is Android malware, and why is it a concern? Android malware comes in many…