Cybersecurity Interview Questions Every Fresher Should Prepare
Interview Questions Every Fresher Should Prepare Getting an interview call for a cybersecurity role is only half the battle. The other half happens in the room, or more often now, on a video call, where a hiring manager is trying to figure...
Cybersecurity Certifications 2026: Which One Should You Get First
Search for cybersecurity certifications on any given day and you will run into a wall of acronyms. CEH, Security Plus, CISSP, OSCP, CySA Plus, CISM, CCSP, and a dozen more, each claiming to be the one that will get you hired. Most...
The Hacker Did Not Break In. He Was Invited.
The security team at a mid-sized IT company in Gurugram spent three months and considerable budget hardening their network. Firewalls. Intrusion detection. Endpoint protection. Mandatory VPN for remote work. Regular vulnerability scanning. By any reasonable measure, they had done what security consultants...
Your Network Is Probably Not as Secure as You Think
The Specific Risk That Cherry County Creates Cherry County, the ABA Corp township in Techzone IV, is a dense residential community where hundreds of IT and BPO professionals live, work remotely, and handle sensitive client data within the same physical network infrastructure...
My Home Was the Lab: How I Learned Ethical Hacking Without Spending a Single Rupee on Equipment
The most common reason students give for not practicing cybersecurity hands-on is that they do not have the equipment. No spare laptops to practice attacking. No physical network to configure. No servers to set up and compromise. This reason made sense in...
Cybersecurity Career Guide: From Complete Beginner to Hired Professional in India
India had over 1.3 million cybersecurity incidents reported in 2023 alone. Banks lost crores to sophisticated phishing campaigns. Hospital systems were taken offline by ransomware. Government portals were defaced. Manufacturing plants had their operational systems compromised. And behind every one of these...
What Is the Dark Web? A Complete Guide for Cybersecurity Professionals
If you ask ten people what the dark web is, you will probably get ten different answers. Some will say it is a hacker marketplace hidden somewhere in the internet’s basement. Others will call it the place where stolen credit cards are...
What Is Social Engineering and How Hackers Manipulate People to Bypass Security
A few months ago, one of our cybersecurity students at TuxAcademy asked me a question that a lot of beginners ask sooner or later. He wanted to know why companies spend millions on firewalls, encryption, and intrusion detection systems, and then still...
Linux Commands Every IT Student Should Know Before Their First Job
A final year student gets their first internship offer. The excitement lasts about two days, until their manager sends a message saying SSH into the staging server and check the logs. The student stares at the screen, opens a black window they...
Git and GitHub for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Git and GitHub Complete Beginner’s Guide: Installation, Commands and Branching Explained Every developer, at some point in their early days, accidentally deletes code they spent hours writing and has no way to get it back. Or they make a change that breaks...