Pornography is hard to avoid and protecting ourselves from the dangers of pornography is even harder. Since the cybercriminal is growing at a skyrocketing rate, it is imperative that we understand the dangers of pornography and take necessary actions to protect ourselves…
A birthday attack belongs to the family of brute force attacks and is based on the probability theorem. It is a cryptographic attack and its success is largely based on the birthday paradox problem. Such attacks are designed to exploit the communication between two parties…
A Zero-day exploit is related to vulnerabilities in device hardware, software, or firmware: these are unknown to the security experts and software vendors. It is often seen that in such kind of cyber attacks the day on which the voids are detected the attacks take place on…
Drive-By-Download refers to the automated download of malicious and infected code to a user’s device by simply visiting a website. Its execution does not depend on clicking or opening an attachment, a simple visit can infect your device and gain unauthorized access to…
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a client-side code injection cyber-attack that exploits web security vulnerabilities. It holds a decade’s old history and is still used as an effective tool to exploit innocent users. Let’s explore its…
Unwanted transmission of private and confidential organization and individual data to an external entity is referred to as Data Leakage. It is an important issue and can ruin your entire working model. Important: how to prevent data leakage?
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Cyber espionage mainly targets Government agencies and enterprise-level organizations and aims at stealing their confidential and sensitive data. It belongs to the family of cybercrime designed to gain political, and economic advantages over competitive companies and…
Anything in excess can result in several issues and buffer overflow is a perfect example of it. Buffer overflows are temporary areas of storage which gets created when you store data more than the holding capacity of the memory buffer. This normally happens when you are…
Computer viruses are specifically designed to corrupt your device and disrupt its overall performance. In simple words, it’s a complete nightmare. We’ll walk you through the most dangerous computer viruses as well as some preventive measures against…
Since Window 7 went off from the market in January 2020, cybercriminals have started sending malicious and infected emails to thousands of users, containing fake Windows updates.
Experts from the security firm Trustwave have advised, what you might think is an authentic…
