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Published inJun 2018
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Rajneesh Gupta
Rajneesh Gupta
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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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Just like every other day, you are enjoying your morning with a cup of coffee and news feeds. At the same time, somewhere, a financially motivated hacker is finding all of the possible ways to compromise millions of users' accounts for a widely used social networking site. The hacker is successful in gaining access to the database and exfiltrates a large amount of credentials.

After around 180 days, this massive credential theft is revealed publicly, and you find out that you are also one of the people who has been targeted. Just like you, millions of other users also have a good reason to be worried about their attached trust and privacy. The examples range from the latest Equifax 2017 Data Breach case (143 million credentials compromised) to the Adult Friend Finder 2016 case (413 million account thefts), the Anthem 2015 case (78 million accounts were hacked), and many more. None of the preventative solutions can be 100% secure, but finding out what the problem was at...

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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
Read more about Rajneesh Gupta