The top ten password-cracking techniques used by hackers

Understanding the password-cracking techniques hackers use to blow your online accounts wide open is a great way to ensure it never happens to you. You will certainly always need to change your password, and sometimes more urgently than you think, but mitigating against theft is a great way to stay on top of your account security. … More The top ten password-cracking techniques used by hackers

Introduction of Firewall in Computer Network

A firewall is a network security device, either hardware or software-based, which monitors all incoming and outgoing traffic and based on a defined set of security rules it accepts, rejects or drops that specific traffic. Accept : allow the trafficReject : block the traffic but reply with an “unreachable error”Drop : block the traffic with no reply A firewall … More Introduction of Firewall in Computer Network

cryptography

Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications through the use of codes, so that only those for whom the information is intended can read and process it. The prefix “crypt-” means “hidden” or “vault” — and the suffix “-graphy” stands for “writing.” In computer science, cryptography refers to secure information and communication techniques … More cryptography

Top 10 Most Common Types of Cyber Attacks

A cyber attack is any type of offensive action that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks or personal computer devices, using various methods to steal, alter or destroy data or information systems. Today I’ll describe the 10 most common cyber attack types: Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack Phishing and spear phishing … More Top 10 Most Common Types of Cyber Attacks

How to install Kali Linux 2020.1 in VMware Workstation Player 15

In this blog post, I will show you how to setup and install Kali Linux 2020.1b in VMware Workstation Player 15.5 which is the latest version of VMware Player. Step 1 – Download Kali Linux ISO image To install the Kali Linux, we will have to first get the installer ISO image file. You can … More How to install Kali Linux 2020.1 in VMware Workstation Player 15