1. DoS and DDoS attacks Adenial-of-service (DoS) attackis designed to overwhelm the resources of a system to the point where it is unable to reply to legitimate service requests. A distributed denial-of-service
Network security is the protection of computer networks from unauthorized access, misuse, or theft. Learn about its types, attacks, architecture, and more.
Example of man-in-the-middle attack In 2017, Equifax, the popular credit score company, was targeted by man-in-the-middle attacks that victimized users who used the Equifax app without using HTTPS, which is a secure way to browse the internet. As the users accessed their accounts, the ...
3. Why Are Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Difficult to Detect? APTs are challenging to detect because they involve stealthy, long-term attacks where attackers remain hidden within networks to gather information. They use sophisticated techniques to bypass detection tools, blend in with regular tra...
Application level. These rootkits are aimed to replace application binaries with malicious code, such as a Trojan, and can even modify the behavior of existing applications. Library level. The purpose of library-level rootkits is to hook, patch, or replace system calls with malicious code tha...
DDoS Protection mitigates these attacks, differentiating between malicious and legitimate traffic, by interacting with the client, and blocking malicious traffic. Resource (application) layer attacks: These attacks target web application packets, to disrupt the transmission of data between hosts. They ...
The second is to install a web application firewall (WAF). A WAF is a tool that helps protect your website by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic. It helps defend against attacks such as SQL injection and XSS by blocking malicious traffic. ...
Moreover, services like OpenAI API greatly simplify integrating LLMs into any application. As a result, many businesses are now susceptible to specific types of cyber attacks. Let's look into some of the tactics that malicious users employ to inflict damage using prompt injection techniques. Sprea...
This is another type of injection attack in which an attacker adds a malicious script to content on a legitimate website. Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks occur when an untrusted source is able to inject code into a web application and the malicious code is then included in webpages that...
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attackstrick authenticated users into unknowingly executing actions on a web application without their consent. These attacks occur when a user is logged in and visits a malicious website, which then sends unauthorized requests to the target website on the user’...