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Which company’s interviews are more difficult: Facebook, Google, Apple or Dropbox? So you have passed out of an engineering college or have done a software certification course! Great! Next what? Most of the engineers and programmers will naturally think about taking a job in the top tech companies  while a few of them will be bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. Out of 100 software engineers who pass out, only 1 percent go on to open a startup, while 99 percent of them go on to join some tech firm. This post is for those 99 percent. After they have decided to take up a job in a tech company like Facebook, Google, Apple or Dropbox, the only obstacle between them and a lucrative career is the interview. What do the HR guys from these top tech firms ask in an interview? Quora users tried to answer that so it could benefit the future crop of software engineers who try their hand at getting a job at Facebook, Google, Apple or Dropbox. Which interview is the most difficult ...

There are so many features, and techniques for using those features, that few pentesters/hackers are aware of all of them. Many times, when doing a pentest/hack, we need to run a number of Metasploit commands repeatedly. These commands may be exactly the same each time, and just like scripting, we may need to automatically run multiple Metasploit commands in a single step. Metasploit has the capability to save and store these "scripts," and they can then be recalled by the script name. Metasploit calls these scripts resource files. For example, in many attacks, we need to set up a multi/handler to connect to when a payload is executed on a target system. In my new Powersploit series, or with theweb delivery Metasploit module, we will always need to set a multi/handler to receive the connections from a sent payload. This usually involves several commands: using the multi/handler, setting the port, setting the payload, setting the IP, an so on. To make things easier, we c...

I want to quickly cover the encryption of disk images before we dive into managing passwords, terminal emulators, etc. So Why Use Encrypted Disk Images? Cloud platforms are convenient, thanks to the ability to upload and access data from any device anywhere with an internet connection. However, the downside is that our data is stored on someone else's machine. Dropbox was breached by hackers in 2012, but it wasn't until 2016 that we knew the extent of it—about  68 million user credentials  were made available to the public. That's a lot of creds. If you were part of the leak, you were probably notified, but was it too late? In the time between the actual hack and the discovery, how much access did the attacker have? Most likely, full access to many accounts. If you were storing anything of value on Dropbox, it was potentially compromised. This is why I use an encrypted disk image when working with the cloud. An encrypted disk image with a strong password wi...