An RTF attack is a malware delivery technique where an attacker sends a specially crafted .rtf file designed to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Office, usually Word. Attackers love RTF becaus...

A Shellshock attack is a security vulnerability that affects the Bash shell. It was discovered in September 2014 and it is tracked as CVE-2014-6271. The vulnerability stems from incorrect parsing ...

In this challenge, you’ll take a look at an email conversation between one of your employees and some strangers. To get started, just open the provided.pcap file with Wireshark. All the questions w...

As a cybersecurity generalist at Commonwealth Bank, you play a key role in defending against the growing threat of financial fraud. Financial fraud poses a significant challenge for any financial ...

Traditional log monitoring often generates mountains of data, making it hard to tell normal activity apart from suspicious behavior. That’s where analytics-driven detection comes in. By combining s...

During this job simulation you’ll take on the role of a cybersecurity consultant at Datacom. You’ll investigate a cyberattack and conduct a comprehensive risk assessment for a client. Give it a try...

Cybersecurity is always changing, which makes Threat detection more important than ever. You need to have a solid understanding on the TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) attackers leverage ...

You’re an Information Security Analyst on AIG’s Cyber & Information Security Team. A common task and responsibility of information security analyst is to stay on top of emerging vulnerabilitie...

In this walkthrough, you’ll dive into a real-world intrusion detection scenario using Splunk. You’ll chase down suspicious processes, DLL abuse, Credential dumps, temporary code executions, and sne...

A SYN Flood attack is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that exploits the way the TCP Three-way Handshake works by flooding a target with a large number of TCP SYN packets. The goal is to exhaust th...