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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 14, 2023

Programming Leftovers

KDE Plasma is NOT a Desktop Environment

Microsoft mends Windows zero-day on April Patch Tuesday [Ed: The latest bug doors are ready to be installed on 'your' machine, even against your will]

↺ Microsoft mends Windows zero-day on April Patch Tuesday

> What's old is new again as multiple security updates from the past made a comeback this month to push the total number of vulnerabilities addressed to 102.

How to use the John the Ripper password cracker

↺ How to use the John the Ripper password cracker

> Red teams and blue teams use password cracking to gain access to systems and to detect weak user passwords or test defenses during red team-blue team exercises.

> Password crackers can be online or offline. Online password crackers, such as Hydra, are used when brute-forcing online network protocols and HTML forms. Situations where online brute forcing might be impractical include a remote system that limits the rate of sign-in attempts or a system that locks users out indefinitely after a predefined number of invalid login attempts.

What Is an Application Level Gateway? Guide to Proxy Firewalls

↺ What Is an Application Level Gateway? Guide to Proxy Firewalls

> Application-level gateways, also known as proxy firewalls, are a type of network security solution that takes action on behalf of the apps and programs they’re set to monitor in a network. They’re primarily responsible for filtering messages and exchanging data flow at the application layer.

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