Phishing is on the rise in the country. India is among the top 4 countries in the world for Phishing attacks and not only that it also one of the top holding countries for such attacks. In the recent years with the venturing of sophisticated methodology to morph individuals using social engineering, phishing attacks have […]
With a little attention, as it turns out, one can spoof fake DNS responses using fragmented datagrams. How is it done? To match authentic DNS responses to their corresponding queries, resolvers and operating system check: Name of the query Type of the query Source/destination address Destination port (16 bits) DNS transaction ID (16 bits) The […]
What is a Fileless or non-malware attack A non-malware attack is one in which an attacker uses existing software, allowed applications and authorized protocols to carry out malicious activities. Non-malware attacks are capable of gaining control of computers without downloading any malicious files, hence the name. Non-malware attacks are also referred to as fileless, memory-based […]
India ranks 21st in the global tally with 6,95,396 attacks hackers across various countries. However, India took the 13th spot in terms of hackers initiating attacks with 73,482 such incidents. Globally, the UK was the biggest source country with a total of 97,680,746 attacks this year, while the US was the top destination country with […]
Sometime in May last year the world woke up to the menace Ransomware can cause. Corporations were caught unaware of something as dangerous as ransomware could strike them and rake up millions of dollars in damages at multiple levels. There is no question vulnerabilities remain given the penetration of different technologies in our lives and […]
It is definitely surprising that most people take penetration testing for vulnerability testing and vice-versa, sometimes even forego one for the other. Penetration testing exploits vulnerabilities in your system architecture, while vulnerability assessment checks for known vulnerabilities and generates a report on risk exposure. Both penetration testing and vulnerability assessment depend mostly on three factors: […]
There are innumerable amounts of malwares lurking around the internet. Do you think one single anti-virus can protect you from all of them? Think again! A lot of viruses bypass the protection softwares and affect your systems gravely. There are hardly any changes you can observe with some malwares. But fortunately, here is a list […]
Network storage devices (NAS), are critical for small and medium businesses as it adds to the extra storage space when these business are running out of space. Critical shortcomings have been discovered in the NAS devices such as WD my book, SeaGate home, Medion Lifecloud, Netgear Stora. This critical vulnerability allows actors to exploit the […]
The worries for facebook do not seem to stop with cambridge analytica and this time around it’s a massive data breach of almost 50 million user accounts and another 40 million which are at risk, the vulnerability allowed hackers to take direct access to all these accounts information. As per Facebook, the bugs that enabled […]
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