We recently had a post about the dark web that mentioned the Tor project. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. The name derived from the acronym for the original software project name "The Onion Router". Tor was originally developed by the US Navy in the mid-1990s. Today, most of the funding [...]
The dark web is a part of the internet (or a small part of the deep web) that isn't indexed by search engines. The dark web contains a large amount of illegal and criminal content (from various aspects). Online marketplaces for drugs, exchanges for stolen data, and other illegal activities get most of the attention. [...]
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a commercial cloud computing service that provides a virtual private cloud, by provisioning a logically isolated section of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This service enables customer to launches AWS resources into a virtual network that he/she/it has defined. So, a customer has complete control over his/her/its virtual networking [...]
In this post, we'll take a look at SSL protocol and TLS protocol to help you understand the different aspects of these protocols. One of the most important topics in Cyber-security course is web secure. What’s SSL? SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. [...]
This post is dedicated to TCP/UDP ports. But what's port? In computer networking, a port is a communication endpoint. A computer port is a type of electronic, software (or programming) related docking point through which information flows from a program on your computer or to your computer from the Internet or another computer in a [...]
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a person or device. In fact, Authentication technology provides access control for systems by checking to see if a user's credentials match the credentials in a database of authorized users or in a data authentication server. The authentication process always runs at the start of the [...]
In recent years, issues such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Biometric Authentication have become more common due to problems in traditional authentication methods. In fact, biometric methods can be considered a subset of MFA. In this post, we take a look at the most common methods used in biometric authentication. There are a number of [...]
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is defined as the hosting of desktop environments on a central server. In fact, VDI is a desktop virtualization technology wherein a desktop operating system (OS) - typically Microsoft Windows - runs and is managed in an on-premises or cloud data center. The virtual desktop image is delivered over a network [...]
First of all, we need to know a little bit about the concept of "public cloud services" or "as s service". The term "cloud services" refers to a wide range of services delivered on demand to companies and customers over the internet and in fact, it refers to a broad category that encompasses the myriad IT [...]