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Sniffing

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Sniffing In this blog you are going to learn what is sniffing ? types of sniffing, tools and protocols that are vulnerable to sniffing attacks . Sniffing is the process of monitoring and capturing all the packets through a given network. This work is assigned to network/system administrator to monitor network traffic. Attackers use this method to capture data packets containing sensitive information such as passwords, account information etc. Sniffers can be hardware or software. It is also called as wiretapping because you may have seen this situation where a third person bugs a telephone line to hear a conversation, it's the same method only an attacker sniffs network in this case. Types of Sniffing  Now you are going to see what are the types of sniffing. Active Sniffing Passive Sniffing Active Sniffing :  If an attacker tries active sniffing it will lock, monitor and also alter the data packets in some way. Active sniffin...

What is Hacking? Definition and Types

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What is Hacking ? Definition -  Hacking is an attempt to exploit a system, network, or a device using some tools or techniques to gain unauthorized access in a system to manipulate, corrupt, destroy the data for its own need or to seek a revenge. Most people think hacking is illegal, well that depends on an intent of a hacker. Hacking   can be legal or illegal, If a hacker has a permission to penetrate into a system it's said to be a legal practice because he/she is only securing a system by informing the vulnerabilities to the organization, which is known as ethical hacking If you are caught performing some illegal activities you will have to face the consequences because the result is going to be drastic, which is known as unethical hacking . Now that you got to learn what does hacking mean, let's see what are the types of hackers Black Hat Hacker : Black Hat Hackers are also known as crackers. These are the types ...

What is cyber security? Why is it important? Types of cyber security

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What is Cyber Security? In today's era every one is aware of the term internet and terms related to internet, each one of us uses for some or the other purpose and we should because it consist of huge resources but do you know how much safe you are while using internet? Or details you put in a site is a safe website? Or images, videos or any file that you download is from a trustworthy website? If you are already aware, well congratulations! because you are one of those people who will keep its data or information secure,but if you don't know from now on you will definitely because you will further come to know how much attention is required while surfing on internet and that is what we call as cyber security . Cyber security is the practice to protect network, data, device, program, computer from malicious activity, attack or unauthorized access. Cyberattacks mainly focuses on accessing, destroying, manipulating sensitive information to an individual or busin...