Most Common Vulnerabilities Archives

What is the BREACH attack?

CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, Data Security, End Point Protection, Most Common Vulnerabilities

In 2013, a new attack named BREACH Attack, or Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext, caught our attention. It affected many by stealing sensitive data transferred over the Internet, even when SSL/TLS (How does TLS protocol...

What is the FREAK attack?

CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, Most Common Vulnerabilities

What is the FREAK attack? We use the HTTP protocol to browse the Internet and visit a website. When we type a URL in the browser, an HTTP request goes to the server, and the server responds with an appropriate HTML page. If we think about security, HTTP is an...

What is the Logjam attack?

CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, Exclusive Articles, Most Common Vulnerabilities

By default, the Internet is unsecured. Data transferred between two hosts is not encrypted by default. As a result, attackers can intercept the connection easily and listen to the conversation. To address the problem, we use protocols like SSH, SSL, and TLS. These...

What is BlueSniping?

Bluetooth Security, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, End Point Protection, Exclusive Articles, Malware Prevention, Mobile Phone Security, Most Common Vulnerabilities, Wireless Network And Security

What is BlueSniping? Attackers often find numerous ways to steal sensitive data from devices. Even Bluetooth-enabled devices are not safe from attackers. And, BlueSnarfing is an example of such a threat. As discussed in BlueSnarfing (What is BlueSnarfing?), using this...

What is wardriving?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Security, Malware Prevention, Most Common Vulnerabilities, Network Security, Wireless Network And Security

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...