What is a honeypot? A honeypot is a computer security mechanism that is used to prevent unauthorized attacks on computer systems. It mainly consists of a computer, some data, and a network site that appears to be part of the network but is isolated and monitored. It...
What is an IDPS or Intrusion Detection and Prevention System? An Intrusion Prevention System or IPS, also known as an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System or IDPS is a network security appliance that monitors network and system activities and detects possible...
What is an IDS or Intrusion Detection System? An Intrusion Detection System or IDS is a device or software application that monitors network or system activities and sends alerts to system administrators at the proper time. IDS monitors both inbound and outbound...
What is the rabbit virus, fork bomb, or wabbit? A rabbit virus or wabbit or fork bomb is a denial of service attack in which a process continually replicates itself and creates a large number of child processes until the system experiences resource starvation. As a...
Ping Flood and Ping of Death are two commonly perpetrated DoS or Denial of Service Attacks. What are they actually and how to prevent them? Let's understand that in more detail. What is Ping Flood? Ping Flood is a Denial of Service Attack. In this attack, the attacker...
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