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What are ARP Tables?

Now that the main internet topics have been covered you now have a better understanding of the juggling act that goes on every time a packet gets sent. Once a packet gets to the LAN the network uses the packet’s MAC address to determine the machine or device that it belongs to. But how does the router know what MAC address belongs to what IP address.

How to Protect Against ARP Spoofing Attacks?

Although it’s difficult to prevent an ARP spoofing attack, encrypting your internet traffic helps protect your information from being stolen or modified. Any traffic sent over an HTTPS connection is encrypted.

What is so dangerous about Open Redirects?

Now that we’ve covered what a redirect and an open redirect are lets get into the damage they’ve caused in the real world. Phishing is a major go to when abusing this vulnerability. Most email security solutions aren’t built to validate is a URL is malicious in real time. What they do is they have a list of bad URLs identified ahead of time. This is what happens to throw away URLs that threat actors use.

Where to find these bug bounty programs?

Now that you have a basic understanding of what a bug bounty program is and the use of it the benefits lets talk about where to find them. While you can check or contact a company directly to find out if they have a program in place the most common way is to join a bug bounty site like HackerOne.

How Secure Is AES 256?

If AES is the gold standard, 256-bit encryption is its poster child. With the longest rounds, the 256-bit key provides the strongest level of encryption. It is near impossible to crack it even if brute force is applied – trying every combination of numbers possible until the correct key is found. The longer the key size, the more attempts are needed.