What is the SYN Flood? SYN Flood is a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack in which attackers send a large number of SYN requests to a system and create a huge number of half-open connections. These requests consume lots of server resources such that after some time...
What is backscatter? Attackers often forge the from and reply-to address of an email to send spam messages. When a receiving server receives such email spam with a forged sender address and later realizes that it cannot deliver the email message, it sends a bounce...
What is password spraying? Password spraying is an attack in which an attacker uses a set of commonly used passwords to access a large number of accounts. The attack is perpetrated in such a way that the attacker evades account lockouts on the attempted user accounts....
What is Credential Stuffing? Credential stuffing is an attack in which attackers collect a list of stolen usernames or email addresses and passwords from various sources and use them to send automated login requests to many web applications in bulk. Whenever there is...
What is Certificate Transparency? When sensitive data is transferred between two hosts, encrypted communication like TLS is used for that purpose. And, digital certificates have a major role to play in TLS communication. A TLS server usually issues its digital...
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