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Have you heard of Advance Persistent Threat or APT?

What is Advance Persistent Threat (APT)?

Introduction

Advance persistent threat (APT) is a term referring torganised, targeted attacks on government organisations, officials and businesses, to steal valuable information and / or to damage to assets. These attacks require high degree of knowledge and the attacks usually occur over a long period of time.

To understand an APT, it is important to look at the definition of each word:…

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Do you know SQL Injection or you just think you know it?

That is the question with which the lecturer started. I wondered If I really know it too. So I am here writing what I know of SQL Injection, may be someone else could help me out with things that I get wrong or provide me with more insight in to the topic.

Introduction

SQL injection is an attack by which the attackers pass the sql statement from the client to the server for execution. If the sql…

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What is it that people call network firewalls?

So I have been reading about firewalls today. It can be said that it is a tool, piece of software that controls the flow of traffic between networks. They sit at the border between networks, acting as a gateway that makes decisions about the kind of traffic that should be allowed or denied access. This decision is usually done based on the TCP/IP characteristics. They also log which connections…

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What is a buffer overflow?

Introduction

Buffer overflow happens when more data is written to a buffer, then it is allocated to hold. This extra data is translated to memory direction numbers, which is executed by a computer. A buffer overflow could crash the application, and also could be exploited by an attacker to execute any command they want.

Types of Buffer Overflow

Stack Overflow

Heap Overflow

Preventing Stack…

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At the artificial beach

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Scroll to a div using jquery

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