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Ethical Hacking Tutorials, Tutorial

How to know victim’s OS using Nmap

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts.

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Networking, Technology

DNS Cache Poisoning and How Does It Work ?

Cache poisoning is a kind of attack in which corrupted data is inserted into the cache database of DNS(Domain Name System) name server. The Domain Name System ( DNS ) is a system which associates domain names with respective IP addresses. Devices which are connected to the internet or a private network rely on the DNS for resolving URLs into their corresponding IP addresses. During a DNS cache poisoning attack, malicious party sends duplicate responses from an imposter DNS  to reroute a domain name to a new IP address. The new IP address is most likely controlled by the attacker and is used to spread computer worms and other malware. Other sophisticated uses for DNS cache poisoning include denial-of-service attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Business News

Amazon to soon receive DIPP’s approval for food retail in India!

In July 2016, Amazon India had launched Amazon Pantry, a service that offered grocery and household essentials and even delivers orders in a day. Competing with retail chains such as Big Bazaar and Spencer’s, Amazon Pantry aims to replicate the supermarket model online, that can deliver products up to 15 kgs per delivery. Also, Amazon Pantry will be accessible to all customers in India, whereas globally, it is only available to Amazon Prime customers, as stated by the company in an official statement at the time of launch.

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Gadgets - Android | IOS, Technology

Xiaomi to launch it’s firstever laptop which is a Macbook Air rival and as cheap as $540

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Xiaomi one of the China’s leading tech company has been quite active recently. Earlier it announced it’s new smartphone device the Redmi Pro and now it is ready to launch it’s first-ever laptop which might be a rival to one of the product (Macbook Air) of the world’s leading tech company Apple. Recently at an event Xiaomi’s VP Hugo Barra officially confirmed this product of the company.It is clear that Xiaomi wants to take Apple head on with this product and who knows it might also leave Apple behind as this new Mi Notebook Air has all the qualities that would attract a lot of folks.

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Networking, Technology

What is A Firewall and Reasons Why You Should Use it

We all heard about firewall at some point of time, what are they used for ? Do they stop viruses?

Well actually, there is a great chance that you are now using a firewall,  if  your are running a modern OS on your computer, there is be one built in, or else your security suite will have a firewall.

But what is this firewall for? Keep reading for reasons why you do, need it.

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