Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing
Last month, we started this series to cover the important cyber attacks that impact critical IT infrastructure in organisations. The first was the denial-of-service attack, which we discussed in detail. This month, we…
SYN Flooding using SCAPY and Prevention using iptables
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against Web services make them unavailable for legitimate users, affecting the website owner’s potential business. These involve intentional consumption of network, CPU and memory resources. In this article,…
The Importance of Intrusion Prevention Systems
In today’s fast-changing IT world, even the best available security is insufficient for the latest vulnerabilities in various products, and against malware/attacks created to target those vulnerabilities. While cyber-security cannot be 100 per…




