It is a well known fact that Cisco is the most popular brand whenever there is demand of networking products in your organizations. In the past some years, Cisco has been serving well to its customers as well as maintaining its quality and servicing so that it’s customer can perform better. No doubt they are the best, but what if this name can let your organization in danger? Yes, you heard it right. A similar kind of situation has bee analyzed by the researchers of F-secure labs. Still it is very difficult to believe on the fact that someone can compromise the security of organization under the name of Cisco.…
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BRAZILIAN TROJANS ARE NOW PLAYING AROUND THE WORLD
During, this worldwide outbreak, the attackers have emerged with lots of phishing attacks, some of which can be easily detectable and some are even not detectable. There are some attackers who create wants to create a backdoor into your system and there are some who are just restricted to stealing your information between your communication to the server. If we see our records of doing attacks, the top names are always Chinese and Russian. The actors from these communities are heavily engaged in launching attacking around the world for more than a decade. Some big tech giants obviously have some amount of system guards present there that makes it a…
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REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATES EVADE TRUST FROM LEGAL SITES
While surfing website from modern web browsers like Chrome, Safari, Edge, in the top URL bar, you’ve definitely encountered a lock sign. This lock sign makes a good impression on your mind either it is a legal site or a phishing website. There are many chances that when the website shows you the warning “Your connection to this site is not private”, that website no longer exist in your good books. But what if a valid site gets a tag of insecure connection? Same thing has been happened with around 2000 websites out there on the internet, observed by researchers from Netcraft. On 11 July, Digicert(a Certificate Issuing Authority) revokes…
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THE SECURE NAME RESOLUTION SYSTEM: GNS
BRIEF ABOUT DNS : Either you are a web admin or know nothing about the technology, every person who use the internet has heard about this word domain name. But lots of people around us don’t know the purpose behind it. Let’s have a brief talk about it. Suppose you write www.ethicaldebuggers.com in your browser. The very first thing you will see after the URL has been processed completely, is the homepage of our website. Have you ever thought what happens exactly? In the background, your client-browser has a resolver which is also known as stub resolver, it quickly finds if it has the DNS records that matches to the…
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THE SECOND LARGEST DDOS ATTACK DETECTED WITH 754 MILLION PPS
Some days before, Akamai recorded the largest DDOS record ever in the history which tried to target the largest European bank. Unfortunately, Akamai rescued it. Yesterday, Cloudflare releases a report in which it’s system detects a DDOS attack at a rate of 754 million packets per second. This attack was then regarded as the second highest and even dangerous DDOS attack after the case of Akamai. As stated in their report, this attack was part of an organized four day campaign starting on June 18 and ending on June 21 through which Cloudflare was successfully able to mitigate this DDOS attack. The team also said that the traffic was sent…
