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Day: December 26, 2018

Protocol Anomaly Detection

It’s late at night and you’re walking to your car after attending a community event. Your car is still a block away. As you walk, you scan the scene before you. Something is just not right, you say to yourself. On the dark sidewalk ahead of you, you see two silhouettes. They are moving about, […]

What You Should Know About APIs

We all know how a computer user interface (UI) works — at least in general terms. Humans interact with digital machines using input devices, and we watch everything real-time on computer monitors. When we think of user input, we usually think of Input devices like a mouse, keyboard, touchscreen, trackball, or pointing stick. But we […]

Guarding Against Data Loss

In 2013, a U.S. military judge sentenced PFC Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison. His crime, as everyone knows, was leaking confidential information. Manning illegally downloaded data to a CD and gave it to Wikileaks. The intentional release of sensitive information is just one way that data loss occurs within an organization. Sometimes it […]

And You Thought Your Transactions Were Safe: SSL Based Attacks

Your plaintext internet traffic is subject to attack. You already knew this.  And it probably won’t surprise you to learn that your encrypted internet traffic is also vulnerable. It’s an unfortunate situation. Carl Herberger, Radware’s VP for Security Solutions, says that the prospect of SSL-based attacks “makes a folly of our existing security infrastructure”. The […]

Be on Guard for Forceful Browsers

When you go to a store to look around, the clerk may ask if they can help you. No, you’re just browsing, you say. You’re not necessarily in search of anything in particular. We do the same thing online. Web browsing is a way to satisfy our curiosity, to delve into areas that interest us, […]