Varun Om
Security architect, full stack developer. bio.Contact: varun at ASPSecurityKit dot net
Posts by this author
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Introducing the Zero Trust Thinking (ZTT) series
By Varun Om | December 9, 2021
What is Zero-Trust? From the whitepaper: Zero Trust (ZT) is a cybersecurity model that emphasizes on verifying access to protected digital resources with zero assumed trust. Every request is verified with all available options regardless of whether …
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533 million Facebook users' personal data have been leaked: Measures to protect your web application from scraping
By Varun Om | April 4, 2021
Personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users was published on Saturday in a low-level cybercriminal forum for anyone to access. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, …
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Massive data breach at several US universities
By Varun Om | April 1, 2021
Several US Universities have been hit by a massive data breach, including Stanford University, University of California, University of Miami, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Maryland etc. Hackers have stolen terabytes of student, …
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Lessons from Ubiquiti breach: Advice on protecting admin user accounts
By Varun Om | March 31, 2021
Recently, Ubiquiti, which has shipped more than 85 million devices related to cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras in over 200 countries, got hacked, with hacker getting root …
Guides by this author
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ASP.NET Core Policy Authorization vs. ASPSecurityKit Activity-Data Authorization (ADA)
By Varun Om | March 20, 2021
This guide provides you a comprehensive comparison of ASP.NET authorization options with ASPSecurityKit’s activity-data authorization (ADA) using a real-world digital banking system as an example – including declarative role-based authorization …