Logic bomb protection: A Logic Bomb is an event-based malicious code used by hackers to infect worldwide PCs. In this, an infected code is inserted into your computer device, network spectrum, and its operating system which gets executed at a particular event.
The…
Virus detection and prevention: a File Infecting virus is designed to infect the files stored on your computer system and can cause significant damage to your data.
The files with .EXE and .COM extension are its main targets, however, the virus is also capable of…
A Boot sector virus infects the hard disk or the Master Boot Record of your computer system and executes itself when you boot your device. It gets loaded on your device memory and keeps infecting the floppy disks which you run on the infected device.
A Boot Sector Virus…
A polymorphic virus is a highly flexible and deadly virus that repeatedly changes and replicates itself to avoid detection. It is a great threat to your computer system and personal information stored on it and can easily change its characteristics to adapt to the security…
While Active and Passive attacks both belong to the family of security attacks there are few underlying points that differentiate them.
Before moving on to the differential factors let’s quickly get a brief understanding of each one of them.
What is an Active…
A Replay Attack is categorized as a network-based security hack and it is built on interception and re-transmission of data. Its main aim is to get system access along with the data stored and transmitted from it.
What Do You Mean By A Replay Attack?
A Replay attack…
A TCP SYN Flood attack is categorized as DoS (Denial of Service attack). It is undeniably one of the oldest yet the most popular DoS attacks that aim at making the targeted server unresponsive by sending multiple SYN packets.
During the attack, the TCP connections are…
A Macro virus is a harmful PC threat that attaches its code to the pre-installed macro operation of a computer system including Microsoft Word, Excel, Spreadsheets, etc. The virus gets embedded in the document macro and automatically launches whenever you open the document…
In a Dictionary attack, cyber-criminals use password guessing techniques to bypass the security walls of a password-protected device. In this, hackers use numerous combinations of usernames and passwords to guess the correct credentials.
A series of dictionary words are…
The Teardrop Attack belongs to the family of DoS (Denial of service) attacks and aims at causing a system crash by putting excess load.
TCP/IP fragmentation codes are the main targets of a Teardrop Attack. Its working methodology involves overlapping the fragmented…
