What Are Blended Threats and How Do Blended Attacks Work?

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:55:37

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What are Blended Threats?Blended threats are harmful programs that mix the capabilities of many forms of malware such as Trojans, worms, and backdoors into a single package. A person visits a website and is subsequently sent to a malicious URL in a blended threat. Following that, social engineering entices the victim to download a malicious file, which then downloads other malicious files.Cybercriminals can distribute threats swiftly and covertly by employing a variety of ways and approaches. It may be defined as a software vulnerability that entails a sequence of assaults aimed at targeting various flaws. When a blended danger is ... Read More

What is an Insider Threat? Types & How to Detect

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:53:02

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What is an Insider Threat?An insider threat is a form of cyberattack perpetrated by someone who works for or has allowed access to a company's networks or systems. Insider threats might be current or former employees, consultants, board members, or business partners, and they can be deliberate or inadvertent.In cybersecurity, an insider threat occurs when someone with authorized access to a company's data and resources uses that access to harm the company's equipment, information, networks, and systems. Corruption, espionage, resource depletion, sabotage, terrorism, and illegal information exposure are all examples. It can also be used as a launchpad for virus ... Read More

What is an Email Virus? How They Spread & How to Prevent

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:49:15

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If your device starts misbehaving after you open an email or its attachment, then your system might become a victim of an Email Virus. In this post, we would discuss more about email virus, methods of spreading, and how to prevent it.What is an Email Virus?Cybercriminals tend to use the popular mediums to cover the maximum number of devices in less time for wide spreading the malware programs and codes they created. One such commonly used medium for malware spreading is email. The malicious programs or codes spread through emails are widely known as 'email viruses.'The infected codes can be ... Read More

What is a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Cybersecurity

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:45:04

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A Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a collection of experts who deal with computer security issues. Another name for such a team is a Computer Emergency Preparedness Team or a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). Cyber Security Incident Response Team is a more current version of the CSIRT acronym.The CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) at Carnegie Mellon University coined the term 'Computer Emergency Response Team' in 1988. (CMU). CMU has registered the word CERT as a trade and service mark in a number of places across the world. Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), as a generic acronym for ... Read More

What is a Command and Control Server?

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:33:46

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A Command-and-Control (C&C) server is used by an attacker or cybercriminal to deliver orders to malware-infected devices and receive stolen data from a target network. Many campaigns have been discovered employing cloud-based services as C&C servers to blend in with normal traffic and evade detection, such as webmail and file-sharing applications.The headquarters or command centers where malware employed in targeted attacks reports back, allowing stolen data or damaging commands to be retained, are known as C&C servers. Establishing C&C links is essential for attackers to move laterally within a network. C&C servers also function as the command and control center ... Read More

Ways to Map and Monitor Cyber Threats

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:31:50

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What are Cyber Threats?Computers and the Internet have become inseparable parts of lives in multiple spheres. The booming technologies of the modern age have made our life much easier and more connected across the globe via interconnected networks. The gadgets we use are used to store personal information, online banking, online shopping, social media, etc. Even though this makes our lives easier, there come many challenges and threats associated with this, known as cyber threats.There's something for everyone, from infrastructure infiltrations and security breaches to viral phishing and brute force. When seeking a target, online dangers are diverse, and they ... Read More

Difference Between Internal and External Penetration Testing

Pranav Bhardwaj
Updated on 19-Jul-2022 08:24:02

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Penetration testing is a cybersecurity procedure during which a team of specialists checks networks, software, hardware, applications, etc., for security weaknesses. Essentially, penetration testing is ethical hacking performed for the benefit of the company that orders the test on its own systems.In some fields such as financial services, healthcare, and government system access, penetration testing is required by regulators, while it is voluntary in others. Penetration testing is an important information security technique that should be included in an organization's governance framework in the face of constantly shifting threats.Network penetration testing, also known as 'infrastructure penetration testing', can be conducted ... Read More

Array Operations in Linux Bash

Mukul Latiyan
Updated on 18-Jul-2022 06:19:48

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Bash scripts are one of the most convenient approaches when we talk about making the command line processes automated in nature. They help us in doing a group of things in a simpler and more understandable manner, and we can do almost all theoperations that we could do in other languages as well.It is well known that the syntax of the bash can be tricky at first, and hence I will try to explain everything that I have used in this tutorial.We come across various situations where we would want to make use of bash scripts to perform different operations ... Read More

Escape HTML Special Characters in JavaScript

Shubham Vora
Updated on 14-Jul-2022 14:27:51

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HTML contains special characters such as ‘, ’ ‘/, ’ and many more such as single and double commas. These special characters are used for the HTML tag, such as ‘’ is used to close the HTML tag. This tutorial teaches us to escape HTML special characters in JavaScript.Now, the question is that what if we want to use these characters inside the HTML content? If we use special characters normally in the HTML content, it considers it the opening or closing HTML tag and produces an unknown error.For example, we need to render the below string to the browser. ... Read More

Use Label with Break Statement in JavaScript

Shubham Vora
Updated on 14-Jul-2022 13:24:13

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This tutorial will teach us to use a label with a break statement in JavaScript. The label and break statement are not new in JavaScript, and many of you are familiar with both. The label is a unique string we can use to give the identity to the block of code, loops, switch cases, etc., in JavaScript.We can use the break keyword with the label statement. It stops the execution of the code in the middle.In this tutorial, we will learn to use the label and break statement with the loops, and block of codes.Here are the basic definitions of ... Read More

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