The Trojan horse is a malicious program that masquerades to be a benign program. These programs appear to be a program that performs the wanted function but ones it’s installed it steals information from the user. They do not tend to replicate but being malicious is enough reason to be protective from them. These are [...]

The packet sniffer is a hacker technique that captures the data packets passing through a particular network interface. Its just like the wire tapping applied to a computer network. The Ethernet technology makes the information pass through all of the hosts attached to that segment. The popularity of switches installation made the packet sniffing a [...]

This is a masquerade attack in which one machine program impersonates another machine program by falsifying the data. This causes illegitimate access advantage to the hacker. The web page spoofing is called phishing in which a web page e.g. an insurance company’s front page is regenerated to acquire the same feel and look and is [...]

The viruses are the malicious programs that enable a copy of it self to be embedded in one or more programs. They perform the unwanted tasks. These are the rapidly copy able malicious programs that infect all of the computers attached to a network or the internet. It’s the most common computer infection all over [...]