Today I want to tell you about something both brilliant and absolutely mean  in cybersecurity: DNS cache poisoning. You’re basically being sent to the right street… but the wrong house number . Hold onto your seats — I’m about to take you on a little cyber adventure! :) Let me break this down in plain English — because once you understand this, you’ll never look at the internet the same way again. Every website you visit has a “street name” (the domain) and a “house number” (the IP address). ...

By ST3MTECH Cybersecurity I want to talk about Smurf attacks as I’ve seen a few in my time (together with DNS cashe poisoning, DHCP attacks and PING of DEATH, but more about those later). With this blog, i hope to help my clients understand in plain English what’s happening to their network, WHY it is happening, and HOW these network attacks can be prevented. So here we go! WHAT exactly is a SMURF attack? Let me ask you this first - ever had someone yell, “DRINKS AT MY HOUSE!”  to a whole...

If you think scams are about dodgy emails and bad grammar, think again. The real power of cyber fraud isn’t in the code — it’s in the...