Phreaker

Phreaking is a slang term for hacking into secure telecommunication networks. The term phreaking originally referred to exploring and exploiting the phone networks by mimicking dialing tones to trigger the automatic switches using whistles or custom blue boxes designed for that purpose.read more

Gray Hat Hacker

 A grey hat programmer (additionally spelled grey hat programmer) is somebody who might abuse moral norms or standards, however without the malignant purpose attributed to dark cap programmers.

Grey hat programmers might participate in rehearses that appear to be not exactly totally above board, yet are frequently working for the benefit of everyone. Grey hat programmers address the center ground between white cap programmers, who work for the benefit of those keeping up with secure frameworks, and dark cap programmers who act vindictively to abuse weaknesses in frameworks. more read

Cracker vs Hacker

Computer cracker A computer cracker is an outdated term to describe someone who broke into computer systems, bypassed passwords or licenses in computer programs, or intentionally breached computer security. Computer crackers were motivated by malicious intent, for-profit, or just because the challenge was there.

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Script Kiddie

 What is a Script Kiddie?

A script kiddie, or skid, is a term that describes a young hacker who has much to learn yet acts as if he or she knows everything. Most of them are teenagers who are in it for fun and treat hacking as a game. Mostly they hack for bragging rights. They also don’t make a real effort to improve their hacking skills. Most don’t even know how to write a hacking program or ‘script’ and are content to pirate those made by others. This lack of skills often leads to their arrest because they leave a trail that’s easy for investigators to track down.read more

Security Analyst

What is a security analyst?

Security analysts can work across the spectrum of computer and information networks. From corporate databases to banking networks and from office networks to military intelligence, security analysts can be found anywhere that large amounts of information are being stored, shared, or used by a computer. A well-trained security analyst will probably have an advanced understanding of both hardware and software, and how data is stored and managed.read more

Cybersecurity Skills

Cybersecurity professionals should be well-versed in computer systems and networks and should have the ability to solve problems and communicate solutions despite the wide variance in job responsibilities across different cybersecurity roles in different industries, studies have shown that specific skills are universally essential for cybersecurity professionals.read more

Blind XSS Impact

What is Blind XSS?

Blind XSS is a flavor of cross-site scripting (XSS), where the attacker “blindly” deploys a series of malicious payloads on web pages that are likely to save them to a persistent state (like in a database, or in a log file). Then, without knowing any details about where the payloads have ended up, or if (and when) they are going to be executed, the attacker waits for the payloads to be pulled out of storage and rendered on a web page loaded by a user. Hence, unlike most XSS attacks, which are non-persistent, and rely on immediate response pages generated from the data input by the attacker in a web form or HTTP query, Blind XSS is a persistent type of XSS that relies on vulnerabilities in the code of the target web pages, which allow malicious scripts, inserted into web controls, to be saved by the server in a database or web site file. These are then “served” to other users as part of HTML page responses, without begin “sanitized” first. read more