A cookie is a small bit of text that accompanies requests and pages as they move between Web servers and browsers. It contains information that is read by a Web application, whenever a user visits a site. Cookies are stored … Continue reading
An Access Control List (ACL) is used to implement a procedure to control inbound and outbound traffic on a network. It filters traffic packets by controlling whether outbound packets are forwarded or blocked at the router’s interfaces.
A network-based detection system (NIDS) analyzes data packets flowing through a network. It can detect malicious packets that are designed to be overlooked by a firewall’s simplistic filtering rules.
Sam Spade is a penetration-testing tool that is used in the discovery phase. It provides GUI graphics and a lot of functionalities. It can perform mainly whois queries, ping requests, DNS requests, tracerouting, OS finger-printing, zone transferring, SMTP mail relay … Continue reading
A smart card is a credit card-sized device used to securely store personal information such as certificates, public and private keys, passwords
Role-based access control (RBAC) is an access control model. In this model, a user can access resources according to his role in the organization.
Symmetric-key algorithms are defined as a class of algorithms used for cryptography that use trivially related, often identical, cryptographic keys for both encryption of plaintext and decryption of ciphertext. The encryption key is trivially related to the decryption key, in … Continue reading
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he International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc., (ISC)²®, is defined as the global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers.
The Melissa virus infects Word 97 documents and the NORMAL.DOT file of Word 97 and Word 2000. This macro virus resides in word documents containing one macro named as “Melissa”. The Melissa virus has the ability to spread itself very … Continue reading