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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that all companies that accept, process, store, or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. The standard was developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, which is made up of major credit card companies … Read more
CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is a human. It is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” CAPTCHAs are used to prevent bots and automated software from interacting with a website, service, or application. They are … Read more
The process of moving a program or program part from disk to an empty area of the main memory is called a swap in memory, and the process of moving it from memory to disk is called swap out.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first network to implement TCP/IP, one of the world’s first operational packet switching networks, and was a pioneer of what would become the global Internet. The network was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later DARPA) at the U.S. Department of Defense, for … Read more
In 1964, the designers of the IBM System/360 computer decided to use groups of 8 bits as the basic unit of computer storage, and they named this group of 8 bits a byte.
Address Resolution Protocol ARP enables the translation of IP addresses into hardware addresses.
The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs the logic operations (such as comparisons) and arithmetic operations (such as addition or multiplication) required during program execution.
Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP) is a protocol that allows connection redundancy and capacity increase by combining multiple connections (F/O, ethernet). Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP) has 3 different modes as active, passive, on mode.
What is Deauthentication attack? The attacker does it to interrupt the network service of a device / user targeted by it. Deauthentication attacks exploit the vulnerability of the 802.11 Wi-Fi Protocol. The attacker does not need to infiltrate the target network for a deauth attack. The attacker performs deauth attacks with the MAC addresses he … Read more