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In a credential stuffing attack, collections of stolen login credentials from one service are used to attempt to break into accounts on various other services. What is Credential Stuffing? Credential…
What is a brute force attack? A brute force attack is a trial-and-error method used to decode sensitive data. The most common applications for brute force attacks are cracking passwords…
DNS amplification is a DDoS attack that leverages DNS resolvers to overwhelm a victim with traffic. What is a DNS amplification attack? This DDoS attack is a reflection-based volumetric distributed…
An SYN flood exploits a TCP/IP handshake vulnerability in an attempt to disrupt a web service. What is an SYN flood attack? An SYN flood (half-open attack) is a denial-of-service…
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the regular traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with…
A bot is a piece of malware that infects a computer to carry out commands under the remote control of the attacker. A botnet (short for “robot network”) is a…
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Defined A Man-in-the-Middle Attack (MITM) is a form of cyber eavesdropping in which malicious actors insert themselves into a conversation between two parties and intercept data through a…
Advanced Persistent Threat Defined and Explained An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a sophisticated, systematic cyber-attack program that continues for an extended period, often orchestrated by a group of skilled…
What exactly is ransomware? If ransomware or an encryption Trojan gets onto your computer, it encrypts your data or locks your operating system. As ransomware gets hold of a “digital…
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