A Web Server is a computer system that host information and provides it to users who accesses through HTTP using web browser. Web Service is most used service on Internet and hence is the most targeted by attacker. The following the various attacks performed on Web Server: Directory Transversal Attack is where the attacker exploits…
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Web Server
A web server is computer system that stores, processes, and delivers web content, like HTML pages, images, and videos to clients through web browser using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol. The Web Server Software is responsible for receiving the HTTP request and responding back with requested information.
Tarpit
Tarpits are computer systems that are used to absorb and delay incoming connections and sessions from an attacker. Tarpits doesn’t prevent cyber security attacks instead they listen and engage with the attacker but respond slowly. This makes the attacker efforts ineffective. Types of Tarpits Layer 7 Tarpits engage with Layer 7 Applications requests of HTTP…
Honeypot
Honeypots are decoy system that are placed in infrastructure to attract and deflect attackers. Honeypots simulate and look like real system having applications and services running on it with vulnerabilities intentionally being kept open which makes it as a trap and lures the attackers towards it. Honeynet is collections of Honeypots. Types of Honeypots Production…
Indicator of Intrusion (IoI)
Indicator of Intrusion is the indicator that an intruder had gained or made attempts to gain un-authorized access to a system. Types of Indicator of Intrusion File System Intrusion By observing and assessing files in the system, we can detect intrusion by the following ways: Network Intrusion Indicator By monitoring the network activity, we can…
Clock Generator
Clock Generator generates digital signal for synchronizing all the activities across the computer performed by the CPU. The clock generator is a Crystal Oscillator that has the property of Piezoelectricity which is a phenomenon that happens when a certain matter generates an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress or pressure.
Clock Rate
In computing, Clock Rate also known as Clock Speed is the number of frequencies generated by clock generator in a processor measured in Hertz which indicates the speed of the processor in the computing device. An unit of the Clock Rate is known as Clock Cycle or Clock Tick which is a combination of positive…
Session Hijacking
Session Hijacking is an act, where an attacker takes the control of an existing network or application session between two systems and gets the access to un-authorized information from the session. The end users who own the systems whose session has been hijacked are not aware that their session has been hijacked. Types of Session…
DoS And DDoS
DoS (Denial of Service) Attack DoS (Denial of Service) is the act, where an attacker makes a computer or network un-available to the users. It is done by flooding the computer or network with huge traffic which depletes the available resources which are CPU, Memory for a computing system and bandwidth for a network and…
TCP 3-Way Handshake
TCP is the primary transport layer protocol that is used to transport data between systems when communicating over a network. TCP is a connection oriented protocol that provides reliability, flow control, congestion control and multiplexing. TCP establishes a connection between the systems when they want to send data with a 3-way handshake. The client starts…