To prevent broadcast storms, which can severely disrupt network performance, a combination of network design strategies, hardware configurations, and proactive monitoring practices should be employed. Here’s a detailed approach: Understanding Broadcast Storms A...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is often likened to the phonebook of the internet, translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses that computers use. However, the traditional DNS has vulnerabilities that can be exploited to redirect users to malicious sites....
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the open-source Netgate pfSense firewall solution called pfSense that could be chained by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible appliances. The issues relate to two reflected cross-site...
A previously unknown hacker outfit called GambleForce has been attributed to a series of SQL injection attacks against companies primarily in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region since at least September 2023. “GambleForce uses a set of basic yet very effective...
Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. “RETVec is trained to be resilient against...
