Series: Comptia A+ (Plus) 220-1002 Series

Denial of Service refers to an attack in which a malicious actor attempts to force a service to fail, usually by overloading it. A Denial of Service (DoS) takes advantage…

Applications have unknown vulnerabilities. Good guys and bad guys are working diligently to find what these vulnerabilities are. The good guys will notify the application developer once found, while the…

Man in the middle attacks refers to when an attacker is able to sit in the middle of your traffic and is able to see your communication without you knowing….

Passwords are not stored in plain text in your computer. Instead they are hashed. A hash is a one way cryptographic process, meaning that your plain text is encoded into…

For passwords, people tend to use common words that can be found in the dictionary. Dictionary attacks are a type of brute force attack that make guesses based on common…

A Rainbow Table is a premade set of hashes. Instead of guessing the user’s plain text password, you can just search the premade list of hashes to see if any…

Spoofing refers to when someone/something pretends to be something that they aren’t. Examples include fake web servers, fake DNS servers, fake email address, caller ID, etc. Spoofing is commonly used…

Once a device is deployed out into a corporate environment, it’s a challenge to ensure that the device remains up to date and compliant with administrator specifications. Another challenge is…

Different levels of accounts are built into the Windows operating system. Administrator An Administrator is a super user, and can control everything on the operating system. Power user A Power…