IT Security

Active and Passive Attacks

You can categorize a session hijacking attack as either an active attack or a passive attack. Let’s look at both.

you should know that spoofing and hijacking are two distinctly different acts. Spoofing is when an attacking party pretends to

Session hijacking is synonymous with a stolen session, in which an attacker intercepts and takes over a legitimately established session

When you’re pen testing for DoS vulnerabilities, a major area of concern is taking down integral resources during the testing

Let’s look at some DoS defensive strategies: Disabling Unnecessary Services You can help protect against DoS and DDoS attacks by

DoS attacks come in many flavors, each of which is critical to your understanding of the nature of the DoS

DoS attacks result in a multitude of consequences. Let’s look at some common examples of what is seen in the

Denial of service is an attack that aims at preventing normal communication with a resource by disabling the resource itself,