Are you a typical user who is working in a small peer-to-peer network with less than 10 hosts? Since, this type of network is devoid of servers, every workstation is configured to act as if it is a client and a server. Every host is forced to share its resources which make it highly […]
Posted on October 7th, 2007 by Ita
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As wireless networks become more and more common these days, networks are becoming easier to break into. The problems stem from the fact that WLANs are very easy to set up and configure. Another reason is that most of the networks are set up with default factory setting which understandably has no restrictions. However, I […]
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Niraj Shrestha
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Footprinting is the technique of gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to.
-Wikipedia
It is one of the phase in which the attacker gathers information about the target system before starting his attack. Footprinting can expose system weaknesses and help the attacker to exploit it. For example, an attacker might use a port […]
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Niraj Shrestha
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