Similar to phishing, pharming is a form of cybercrime in which a website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential information.…
Historically, rootkits were tools that provided admin-level access to a system or network. The term rootkit is a combination of…
A network sniffer is a software that is programmed to monitor data flowing over a network. The scope of these…
Social engineering is a term used to describe the act of tricking people into revealing private information or directing them…
Keylogger is a brief definition for the concept and practice of digital surveillance. Alternatively, it is also known as keystroke…
The term spoofing, in cybersecurity, means some kind of impersonation attempt made by cybercriminals pretending to be a name or…
Daniel Kahneman, a notable psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences introduced the concept of…
SQL Injection involves the execution of malicious SQL statements in applications using SQL databases like MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.…
Many of us might have come across the term adware before but may not be clear with what it exactly…
Exploit kits can be described as automated programs that cyber exploiters use to exploit existing vulnerabilities in the systems or…