This is a must watch video and must play game in order to even get started in developing an investigative mindset that is essential in incident response and cybersecurity investigations.
You can not just read about cybersecurity, you need to start developing skills, but will see that even basic skills an be challenging as you start using those skills in real environments.
This video will also show you that basic encoding can also be used by actual applications to store passwords. It will also show you how Base64 works and how important log analysis is in this field.
http://youtu.be/9sGhmYlBrXU
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