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I am surprised by the lack of awareness on network security at corporate level

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Till today I never used a broadband connection other than the one they provide at my college. At college we are behind a proxy server, so we are not in direct connection with the computers outside our college. Today I happened to use BSNL dataone broadband internet connection at my uncle’s place, and I casually scanned [...]

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port scanning

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Port Scanning is one of the most popular among the reconnaissance techniques attackers use. All machines connected to a LAN or connected to Internet via a modem run many services that listen at certain ports. A service is a program that waits inside a loop for a request message from a client, and [...]

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Unknowingly Installed File Types Can Be Viruses or trojans

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Viruses, Trojans and worms can be connected to your files and when you click on that file the virus or Trojan get automatically installed and you can’t even notice that. These viruses can be connected with files like images, videos, programs and many more file types. How it works : Simple to create such file is using a [...]

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