Cyberterrorism is defined as the strategically premeditated attack over the internet that mainly focuses over political disarray or physical harm of the state at a huge level. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines cyberterrorism as any “premeditated, politically…
Panasonic, The Japanese tech company has confirmed data breach after the hackers accessed the personal information of the job candidates and interns. Company said that it network was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11. NHK (Japanese publication)…
In computer networking , a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource. What is a Proxy Server and How Does it Work? The actual nuts and bolts of how the internet…
Hardware hacking is the modifying of electronics into a form that was not originally intended. This modifying of hardware affects the functionality, components enclosed within the hardware or even the behavior of the hardware equipment itself. These types of modifications…
Hashing is an algorithm that generates a fixed-length string from an input. Cryptography is the study of secure communications techniques that allow only the sender and intended recipient of a message to view its contents. The term is derived from the Greek…
Hashing is simply passing some data through a formula that produces a result , called a hash. What is hashing? Hashing is the process of transforming any given key or string of characters into another value. Most popular use for hashing…
cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multiple locations, each location being a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing…
What is a DNS CNAME record? The ‘canonical name’ record is used in lieu of an A record when a domain or subdomain is an alias of another domain. All records must point to a domain, never to an IP address. Imagine a scavenger…
What is a DNS MX record? A DNS ‘mail exchange’ (MX) record directs email to a mail server. The record indicates how email messages should be routed in accordance with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP, the standard protocol for…
What is a DNS AAAA record? DNS AAAA records match a domain name to an IPv6 address. DNS AAAA records are exactly like DNS A records, except that they store a domain‘s IPv6 address instead of its IPv4 address. IPv6 is the…
How can you know if the link someone sent you was to track your IP? If the link is for a common site (eg ) and there are no extra parameters on it; then it won’t help them link your…
Pegasus was discovered in August 2016 after a failed installation attempt on the iPhone of a human rights activist led to an investigation revealing details about the spyware, its abilities, and the security vulnerabilities it exploited. News of the spyware caused significant…
Parameter tampering is a simple attack targeting the application business logic. This attack takes advantage of the fact that many programmers rely on hidden or fixed fields (such as a hidden tag in a form or a parameter in a URL)…
What is NMAP(Network Mapper) NMAP(Network Mapper) is developed by ‘Gordon Lyon’. NMAP (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. It uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts…
HTTP request An HTTP(HYPER TEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL) request is made by a client, to a named host, which is located on a server. The aim of the request is to access a resource on the server. To make the request,…
