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From Automed Social Engineering Bot to Agents

Automated Social Engineering Back in 2009, I published my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering (ASE). The core idea was simple: combine chatbots with data from social networks to make social engineering attacks fully automated. At the time, the poor quality of automated conversations was the main limitation. Automated Social Engineering Became Practical Today, that […]

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It’s Time to Migrate Your Bitnami WordPress Deployments

For years, Bitnami was the “go to solution” for Kubernetes applications. But the landscape has shifted. With the Bitnami “Free” (Community) charts now deprecated and no longer receiving security updates, staying on that path isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a liability. If you aren’t paying for their enterprise tier, you are running unpatched CVEs on outdated […]

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How-To Install aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04

The aircrack-ng package has been removed from the official package tree. Installing aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04 is however straightforward. First checkout the latest aircrack-ng source code via SVN:svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ngThen, within the “aircrack-ng” directory, run the following commands:makesudo make install