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DDoS Attack on Myanmar Takes the Country Offline

The main Internet provider for Myanmar, the southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma, has been under severe denial of service attack since at least October 25, according to the

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of honey pots?

Honey pots have several advantages, which are as follows: * Small set of data: Honey pots collect small amounts of data, but almost all of this data is about real

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Directory Traversal

Directory Traversal Overview Directory Traversal vulnerabilities occur once again when the user supplied input is not validated. You think we would get tired of saying this, but it appears this

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