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Honeypots – a advanced trap for hackers
Posted by noormohammed.samnani in For the Tech Savvy on March 27th, 2008
A honeypot is a resource with a variety of different uses and whose value lies in its unauthorised or illicit use.
In other words a honeypot is useless if attacker or malicious user does not attack or atleast try to attack it.
Use of honeypots:
Honeypots are designed to study the different kinds of attack and the procedure in which attack takes place.thus honeypots lures the attackers to attack the system with a pupose of security and security related studies and analysis.a normal user will never connect to honeypot resource.
Now since a honeypot resource has no real use thus if a system admin notices a user connecting to it,then 99% of the time that user is a malicious one.
Sun Certification Exams
Posted by Rohit in Did you know?, For the Tech Savvy on March 18th, 2008
Hi All
This blog is related to sun cetrification exam. Making the decision to study for the Sun Certification Exams is a big step.It’s a long hard road, but at the end, you will have demonstrated both your resolve to become a highly-skilled Java programmer, as well as your competency.
For those who have had prior Java experience,use the language day-to-day, and use a study guide or training course as an aid,passing the exams is far easier.
Now we will discuss the reasons to be a Sun Certified——-
Windows Registry – The THINKING CAP OF WINDOWS O.S.
Posted by noormohammed.samnani in For the Tech Savvy on February 26th, 2008
The registry is the backbone of windows O.S. It is a hierarchical or tree database in windows O.S that virtually stores all the information about computer configuration. It’s pretty similar to windows explorer which is two pane split window, one showing hierarchy and another detailed information.
It is made up of two files :
1. user.dat
2. system.dat
Significance of windows registry:
Windows registry determines the look, tool and working of windows system in a similar way to the genes {DNA and RNA} determining the look and feel of human beings.