MySQL Hardening

Actually the MySQL installation is not secure by default. In this, any user can login and view the databases. There Continue reading →

Lab Assignment on SSL

The following questions were asked for my lab assignment. So I thought of blogging it. The questions were solved after Continue reading →

Setting Up a Webserver & Enabling https Connection

As a part of my network security assignment, I decided to setup a webserver and tried to enable https connection.Hypertext Continue reading →

Top Attacks on a Web Application

The top attacks on Web Application are: 1. Cross-site scripting (XSS) Cross-Site Scripting is a type of vulnerability typically found Continue reading →

Cryptographic Hash

Cryptographic hash is actually an algorithm. This algorithm takes in a block of data and returns a fixed value called Continue reading →

Which One is Faster: Symmetric Encryption or Asymmetric Encrption ???

I heard that symmetric encryption  is much faster than asymmetric encryption. So I just tried some steps to verify it. Continue reading →

Netcat

    Netcat  is a networking service used for reading or writing from TCP and UDP sockets using an easy interface. Continue reading →

Nmap

Nmap is Network Mapper. It is a security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a network. It sends Continue reading →