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What is Penetration Testing? Complete Beginner Guide 2026 — How It Works, Types, Tools & Career What is Penetration Testing? Complete Beginner Guide 2026 — How It Works, All Types, Real Tools & Career Roadmap By Amardeep Maroli  |  April 10, 2026  |  Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, Cybersecurity  |  16 min read Home About Contact At 2:17 AM on a Tuesday, a penetration tester was three days into an engagement with a mid-sized fintech company that processed billions in annual transactions. The company had firewalls, endpoint detection, multi-factor authentication, and quarterly vulnerability scans. Their security team believed they had things locked down. The tester had just chained three seemingly minor findings together: an API endpoint returning verbose error messages, an internal Jenkins server with default credentials accessible via a misconfigured VPN split-tu...

What is Phishing? Types, Real Examples & How to Spot Every Attack (2026 Guide) What is Phishing? Every Type Explained with Real Examples & How to Spot Every Attack (Complete 2026 Guide) By Amardeep Maroli  |  April 9, 2026  |  Phishing, Social Engineering, Cybersecurity  |  15 min read Home About Contact In February 2024, a finance employee at a multinational company in Hong Kong received a video call from his CFO. The CFO asked him to authorise a series of urgent transfers totalling $25 million. The employee was nervous about the large amount but recognised the CFO's face, voice, and mannerisms on the call. Several other colleagues were also on the call — the employee could see their faces and hear their voices too. Every person on that call except the employee was a deepfake generated by AI. The $25 million was transferred and never recovered. That incident ill...

What Is Ransomware? Complete 2026 Guide — How It Works, Real Attack Examples, RaaS, Recovery & Prevention What Is Ransomware? Complete 2026 Guide — How It Works, Real Attack Examples, RaaS, Recovery & Prevention By Amardeep Maroli | April 9, 2026 | Ransomware, Cybersecurity Threats, Malware | 15 min read Home About Contact In the first five weeks of 2025, 378 organisations in the US became ransomware targets. Not 378 over the whole year — 378 in five weeks. The average cost of recovering from a ransomware attack, not including the ransom payment itself, now stands at $2.73 million according to Splunk. Ransomware was a component of 39% of all breaches in larger organisations. It is the single most financially damaging category of cyberattack, and it is getting more sophisticated every year. Yet a surprising number of people — including developers, small business owners, and students entering ...