Linux

Public addresses are assigned by InterNIC and consist of class-based network IDs or blocks of CIDR-based addresses (called CIDR blocks) that are guaranteed to be globally unique to the Internet. When the public addresses are assigned, routes are programmed into the routers of the Internet so that traffic to the …

SlowHTTPTest is a highly configurable tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks. It works on majority of Linux platforms, OSX and Cygwin – a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. It implements most common low-bandwidth Application Layer DoS attacks, such as slowloris, Slow HTTP POST, …

I’ve talked about testing few DoS tools that can put heavy load on HTTP servers in order to bring them to their knees by exhausting resource pools. GoldenEye is the first of those tools and it is one of the newest I discovered in GitHub. You can DoS websites with …

With Google, Microsoft and every major technological giants sunsetting sha-1 due to it’s vulnerability, sha256 is the new standard. It seems to be an issue almost all Infrastructure Administrators are facing right now. Those who are using managed PKI console, it’s very easy and straight forward and the signing authority …

Sometimes you need to send a file containing sensitive information across to someone over internet and you started thinking, “Gee, I’ve got some pretty sensitive information in the file. How can I send it securely?” There are many ways to send encrypted files. A good way for encrypting files is using …