Understanding Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) What is DoS? DoS stands for Denial of Service, which is a means of attack on a specific website or service, where an adversary sends a huge number of requests from a machine, thus by […]
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Cookies An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data stored on the user‘s computer by the web browser while browsing a website. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping […]
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Cyber security Best Practices First, a note to IT admins about this open letter. The admin’s job is never done. Ever. Period. End of story. You work all day, you go home, you think about work, you dream about work, […]
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Introduction The nature of war does not alter but its character does. Several seminal events and technological innovations were responsible for these alterations War has expanded from the land and sea domain to air and space with the advent of […]
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Introduction If you take a broad view of penetration testing, the first step is information gathering, and after that, every step is closely related to the next one. In fact, all the steps fall into one broad category: exploitation. Vulnerability […]
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Ethical Issues in IT Industry Ethics is defined as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.”. In the IT industry where there are no comprehensive standards in place, with the emergence of […]
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The OSI reference model was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and it has seven layers in all. The layers are as follows • Application (layer 7) • Presentation (layer 6) • Session (layer 5) • Transport (layer […]
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CYB3R CRIMES : “THE DARK TRUTH OF INTERNET” In the current era of online processing, maximum of the information is online and prone to cyber threats. There are a huge number of cyber threats and their behavior is difficult to […]
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As a commercial user of services – a customer – you have a number of rights and expectations. The expectations are that commercial providers and businesses acknowledge their responsibilities, their duty of care, to protect your information that they hold […]
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INDIAN IT ACT, 2000 The IT Act 2000 is also known as an IT Act and was proposed by the Indian Parliament on 17 October 2000 by the Indian Parliament. The Act provides a legal framework for electronic governance by giving recognition […]
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