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September 12, 2018 by IP Location

Privacy and Security issues with Big Data and Cloud

Privacy issues with Big Data and Cloud

Several organizations deal with a large amount of data on a daily basis. Such organizations constantly look for solutions to optimize the storage of such massive data. Along with storing another concern is analyzing a huge volume of data. This together with the scalability of infrastructure and a budget-friendly solution is something that organizations look...

August 28, 2018 by IP Location

What is Dark Web?

Dark Web

Dark web forms a part of the Deep web which cannot be indexed by search engines. These are a collection of websites that are publicly visible but can hide the IP addresses. This makes tracking of such websites difficult. A search engine will never be able to find such websites.

August 28, 2018 by IP Location

What are the most secure encryption algorithms?

Encryption

Encryption of data has become an integral part of data security. Encryption can protect sensitive information and also provide secure network connections. Encryption generates a ciphertext from your original data, which can be decrypted by the intended recipient. This makes brute force attacks and Man-in-the-middle attack almost impossible.

August 19, 2018 by IP Location

What is Data Loss and How do you Prevent it

Data Loss

Data loss is an error condition in information systems that causes stored information to be destroyed by some critical failure or neglect while in storage, transmission, or processing. Most of these systems would implement some form of backup or disaster recovery equipment to both prevent or recover from data loss.

August 18, 2018 by IP Location · 1 comments

The End of Net Neutrality: Why You Need a VPN

End of Net Neutrality

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and the Internet as we know it today, envisioned a resource based on the philosophy that information should be freely available to anyone. The Internet was born of necessity and curiosity and experimentation, and free-flowing information became universally ingrained in the zeitgeist of Internet users from t...

August 1, 2018 by IP Location

What is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)?

CSRF

Learn about the stealthy threat of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks and how they exploit web application authentication. Discover how CSRF vulnerabilities can be identified and safeguarded with unique tokens, protecting critical user data in online banking, social media, and beyond.

July 30, 2018 by IP Location

What is Carriage Return, Line Feed Injection (CRLF Injection)?

CRLF Injection

Carriage Return and Line Feed (CRLF) are special character elements typically embedded in Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers and some other software code. The inclusion of these character elements is to denote an End of Line (EOL) marker. These character elements are actually very common as many protocols of the Internet Protocol (IP) Suite, such as...

July 29, 2018 by IP Location

What is buffer overflow?

Buffer Overflow

Firstly, we must define what a buffer is. A buffer is an allocated section of memory which can hold anything from a string of characters to an array of integers. That being the case, a buffer overflow (or overrun) is what happens a buffer with a fixed-length receives more data than what it can handle. In this case, the extra data has to be stored somewhere a...

July 15, 2018 by IP Location

What is Cybersecurity?

Cyber Security

Cybersecurity deals with the protection of computer systems, networks, and data from cyber theft and damage to hardware, software and information. Cybersecurity is equally important for companies as well as individuals.