Introduction We live in an era where malware is targeting smartphones and other devices from the Internet of the Things (IoT) world. This is not a desirable situation, but unfortunately, it happens more frequently and in a destructive way. Of course, criminals look for other ways to exploit attacks, choosing different pathways and landscapes. Most … Read more
Top ethical hacking books for 2021 Ethical hacking is a huge field with a number of different specializations within it. Since ethical hackers are expected to perform an assessment of the security of an organization’s complete network environment, a number of books exist that provide extremely in-depth descriptions of how to hack into a particular … Read more
What is a brute force attack?A brute force attack when an attacker uses a set of predefined values to attack a target and analyze the response until he succeeds. Success depends on the set of predefined values. If it is larger, it will take more time, but there is a better probability of success. The … Read more
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is designed to cause service outages. These attacks can easily cost an organization a significant amount in damages and wasted resources, even if the attacker does not demand a ransom to stop the attack. A number of different free DDoS tools exist, making it cheap and easy for even … Read more
Passwords are the most commonly used method for user authentication. Passwords are so popular because the logic behind them makes sense to people and they’re relatively easy for developers to implement. However, passwords can also introduce security vulnerabilities. Password crackers are designed to take credential data stolen in a data breach or other hack and … Read more
Last year, I wrote an article covering popular wireless hacking tools to crack or recover password of wireless network. We added 13 tools in that article which were popular and work great. Now I am updating that post to add few more in that list. I will not explain about wireless security and WPA/WEP. You … Read more