Tag: security

luring victims into attacks by using precisely targeted researched personal information schemes

the practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection; Use of propaganda by an authoritarian government to sway perceptions and attitudes of its own citizenry

the act of someone who fishes as a diversion

the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. This is usually combined with a threat or request for information.

a mechanism of sharing scripts between two websites

a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application

is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables malicious attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users.

is a way to protect websites using JavaScripts

a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application

is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables malicious attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users

is a way to allow users to query database using web

is a latest way to fight against database security issues

is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables malicious attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users.

is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users by sending invalid/forged requests

is a form of attack on a database-driven Web site in which the attacker executes unauthorized SQL commands by taking advantage of insecure code on a system connected to the Internet

is a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts

is an action taken by server when invalid credentials are supplied by users

is an action taken by firewall to prevent access to malicious users

is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users

is a way to prevent Cross Site Scripting attacks

is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical hacking techniques (essentially a fancier, more technical way of lying).

is a way to educate users about different security issues

is a group formed by malicious users

is a practice of engineering dealing with Social Security

is by using complex passwords

is to encrypt the entire login transaction using something like SSL

is by not using public/shared PCs

is by sending credentials by POST method

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cross-site scripting

command injection

path traversal attacks

SQL injection

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