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What is a rabbit virus or fork bomb or wabbit?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, DoS and DDoS Prevention, Malware Prevention

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...

What is IP address spoofing?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, DoS and DDoS Prevention, Malware Prevention, Network Security, Security Fundamentals

What is IP address spoofing? In Computer Networking, IP address spoofing or IP spoofing is the creation of IP packets with a forged source IP address. This is often done for the purpose of concealing the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing...

What is a firewall and how does it work?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, DoS and DDoS Prevention, End Point Protection, Firewall, Information Security, Malware Prevention, Network Security, Online Banking Security, Security Fundamentals

What is a firewall? A firewall is a network security system that establishes a barrier between an internal network and an outside network and monitors and controls network traffic based on some predetermined security rules. A firewall is designed to prevent...

How does the SSL protocol work?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Encryption, Malware Prevention, Online Banking Security

If we want to transfer sensitive data over the unsecured Internet, we need to encrypt it. Many of us might have heard the terms SSL and TLS. What is SSL, actually? How does it work? Let's understand that in detail. What is SSL? SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is a...