In recent years, the rise of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has been nothing short of meteoric. With eye-popping sales of digital artwork and other collectibles, NFTs have captured the attention of investors, collectors, and creators alike. However, with any new technology comes questions about its security and reliability. So is an ...
Blockchain technology was indeed built with security in mind. This means that it is supposed to be very secure compared to other technologies. However, Blockchain technology suffers from some weaknesses that can be exploited to damage the system. So what are Blockchain attacks? Blockchain technology could be attacked at each ...
Performing a penetration test against a mobile application before releasing it to the public is becoming more and more necessary to protect the user’s personal life. Compared to classic web applications, there a very few relevant courses that can be bought to learn and practice this kind of penetration test. ...
Once a professional penetration tester gets his OSCP certification the decision for the next step is really hard to make. Some chose to go for binary exploit while others think about specializing in web applications and trying to get the OSWE. However, is the OSWE certification also known as (AWAE) ...
If you ask any OSCP-certified penetration tester about what certification is the most attractive for you as a next step, then he would say OSWA. With its web-focused penetration test content in place, most beginners and experienced penetration testers want to go after it but ask about its worthiness. So ...
When talking about wireless attacks and penetration tests, there is a very few good certifications that anyone interested in this field may go after. One of the most popular ones is the OSWP made by the offensive security team. So, does the pen-210 course and OSWP certification worth it? The ...
Many new Blockchain users and developers think that the Blockchain offers the ultimate security solution to whatever use case we want to create. Unfortunately, this is not the case and any Blockchain component could be hacked. Therefore, can crypto wallets be hacked? A crypto wallet can be hacked using one ...
The number of smart contract applications deployed each day in the Ethereum Blockchain is increasing every day. Fascinated by the security aspect of the newly proposed Blockchain technology. More people are trying to deploy new smart contracts in the mainnet and most of them start holding millions of dollars in ...
The only things that truly do not change in a smart contract even with proxies concepts are state variables. However, not carefully using them in a smart contract could lead to some serious vulnerabilities. One of those vulnerabilities is called state variables shadowing. Therefore, what is smart contract shadowing state ...
Smart contract attacks usually exploit a vulnerability in a smart contract source code which leads to some serious financial losses. Therefore, ensuring that the smart contract is clean from any possible vulnerability before deploying it in the Mainnet is a must. So, how much does a smart contract audit cost? ...