The following press release was published January 23, 2026: At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U.S. district court in Florida has temporarily stopped the operations of a web of companies and individuals that the FTC alleges caused tens of millions of dollars in harm through the deceptive marketing of health care plans. According to...

Imagine this: You’re an attacker ready to get their hands on valuable data that you can sell to afford going on a sweet vacation. You do your research, your recon, everything, ensuring that there’s no way this can go wrong. The day of the attack, you brew some coffee, crack your knuckles, and get started. A few hours into the service scan, you come to realize that all the network ports are open, but in use.

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For those of us in cybersecurity, there are a lot of unanswered questions and associated concerns about integrating AI into these various products. No small part of our worries has to do with the fact that this is new technology, and new tech always brings with it new security issues, especially technology that is evolving as quickly as AI.

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Go-Spoof brings an old tool to a new language. The Golang rewrite [of Portspoof] provides similar efficiency and all the same features of the previous tool but with easier setup and useability.

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Hello and welcome! My name is John Strand, and in this video, we’re going to be talking about Word Web Bug Servers. Now the idea of a Word Web Bug […]

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Hello and welcome! My name is John Strand. In this video, we’re going to be talking about using SpiderTrap to entrap and ensnare any web application pentesters or hackers that […]

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Hello and welcome! My name is John Strand, and in this video, we’re going to be talking about tripwire Honeyports. Now, this is a lab that’s used in ADHD. This […]

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Ever wanted to get started in cyber deception? Ever wanted to do it for free? In this BHIS webcast, we will cover some basic, legal, and easy tools/techniques to get […]

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In this BHIS podcast, originally recorded as a live webcast, we cover some new techniques and tactics on how to track attackers via various honey tokens.  We cover how to […]

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In this BHIS webcast, we cover some new techniques and tactics on how to track attackers via various honey tokens.  We cover how to track with Word Web Bugs in ADHD and […]

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