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What is wardriving?

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Nowadays, we use wireless networks almost everywhere, starting from home, restaurants, and cafeterias to various organizations. Because of the convenience of using the wireless internet, we sometimes connect to the Wi-Fi networks without passwords or encryption. And...

What is BlueSnarfing?

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What is BlueSnarfing? BlueSnarfing is the illegal theft of information from Bluetooth-enabled devices. Using BlueSnarfing, attackers can take advantage of the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth software and access Bluetooth-enabled devices illegally without the...

What is the blind SQL injection attack?

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What is the blind SQL injection attack? Many web applications use SQL to store or retrieve sensitive data of the users to or from the database. The data may be user credentials, transaction details, or other data useful to the web application. For example, let's...

What is the Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack?

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What is the Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack? The Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack is an attack in which an attacker eavesdrops and possibly alters the communication between two hosts over the network and steals sensitive data to perform more attacks. How does the...

What is session hijacking in cyber security?

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What is session hijacking in cyber security? When a user authenticates himself to a web server, the session is maintained with an HTTP cookie. The cookie is placed on the user's computer. Session hijacking is an attack in which an attacker exploits a valid session of...