Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Types of spoofing

There different types of spoofing methods. They are
  • In Blind Spoofing, the cracker or attacker can fake his identity by injecting data into the stream of packets without authenticating himself.
  • In Non-blind spoofing, by detecting the line for current transmissions the attacker can hijack discussions that have already been built by avoiding any sort of authentication.
  • In Denial-of-service attack, the attacker can send the attacks by disguising the source and making it difficult to close it off.
  • In Man in the middle attack, a malicious or mischievous machine interrupts the packets sent between the two machines without knowing to each of them that their communications have been tampered or manipulated.
  • In Homograph Spoofing, the internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a means by which a mischievous party may cheat computer users about what remote system they are interacting with, by manipulating many different characters may have nearly (or wholly) duplicate glyphs (glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure). This type of spoofing attacks are known as homograph spoofing attacks.
In order to get protected from these attacks, Turn off your computer or disconnect its ethernet interface when you are not using it.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Money Saving Tips of Budget

To start saving money, maintain a record of needs where the dollars can be trimmed. Start with the biggest items first, where there are more chances of savings, and proceed to the less expensive items. First, wants and needs need to be differentiated. If you don't misunderstand wants for needs, then so much of money can be saved. Needs are those items that are necessary to live, like Shelter, food, clothing, transportation and they are simple to identify. Wants are those items that enhance or possibly improve our family life. Select things that are costs less and better in quality. We opt for the $100 dinner at the modern or style restaurant when a $20 meal would have been just as delicious. This does not save money.

Think about where and how you are spending the family money, to see if there couldn't be savings found with minor changes in habits. Before buying any thing, try it. This helps indirectly to avoid the silly purchases of things you barely or never use. Before you want to buy something, especially items with big price tags, borrow one, rent one, or try one out before you spend the cash. A moderate savings on one of the big items (houses and cars) combined with savings on the smaller items (food, clothes, etc.) can gain a large reward in your total budget.


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