Cross-site scripting takes advantaged of a trusted browser to attack other systems. In this video, you’ll learn about reflected and stored XSS attacks and I’ll demonstrate a cross-site scripting attack on a vulnerable system. << Previous Video: Privilege Escalation Next: Injection Attacks >> In this video, we’ll describe some techniques around cross-site scripting. …
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Some attacks can use an existing user account to gain elevated access. In this video, you’ll learn about privilege escalation vulnerabilities and how to prevent them. << Previous Video: Cryptographic Attacks Next: Cross-site Scripting >> We often worry about an attacker getting administrative login rights or some type of route log in to …
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Some attackers will use shortcomings in cryptographic protocols and techniques to gain access to data. In this video, you’ll learn about the birthday attack, hash collisions, and downgrade attacks. << Previous Video: Cloud-based vs. On-Premises Attacks Next: Privilege Escalation >> Let’s say that you’ve encrypted some data, and you’ve put it into an …
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Which is safer, a cloud-based infrastructure or an on-premises data center? In this video, you’ll learn about the advantages and disadvantages of securing data in both environments. << Previous Video: Supply Chain Attacks Next: Cryptographic Attacks >> There are two schools of thought when it comes to data security. One school says, if …
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Supply chain attacks are designed to affect many victims from one broad attack vector. In this video, you’ll learn about supply chain attacks and how companies are managing their supply chains. << Previous Video: Adversarial Artificial Intelligence Next: Cloud-based vs. On-Premises Attacks >> The supply chain is the chain of manufacturing that gets …
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Attackers use many different techniques to manipulate artificial intelligence and the machine learning process. In this video, you’ll learn about poisoning training data, evasion attacks, and securing the learning algorithms. << Previous Video: Physical Attacks Next: Supply Chain Attacks >> We’re able to make our computers much smarter these days by using machine learning. Our …
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Attackers often use physical devices to assist with their attack. In this video, you’ll learn about the use of malicious USB cables, malicious flash drives, skimming, and card cloning. << Previous Video: Password Attacks Next: Adversarial Artificial Intelligence >> Attacks aren’t always done across the network. There are many attacks that are physical attacks. One …
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There are many different techniques that the attackers can use to find your password. In this video, you’ll learn about spraying attacks, brute force attacks, hashing, dictionary attacks, rainbow tables, salt, and more. << Previous Video: Logic Bombs Next: Physical Attacks >> An attacker loves applications that store passwords as plain text. They take the …
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A logic bomb can be difficult to identify prior to the event. In this video, you’ll learn about logic bombs and some of the techniques they use to create chaos on our networks. << Previous Video: Bots and Botnets Next: Password attacks >> A logic bomb is a type of attack that occurs …
Is your computer under the control of someone else? In this video, you’ll learn about bots, botnets, and how to stop the bot in its tracks. << Previous Video: Spyware Next: Logic Bombs >> The malware term “bot” stands for robot. And it’s a term to describe the automation that occurs behind the …
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