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Cisco Routers

Cisco Type 7 Password Decrypt / Decoder / Crack T…

The Firewall.cx Cisco Password Decoder Tool (see below) provides readers with the ability to decrypt 'Type 7' cisco passwords. For security reasons, we do not keep any history of decoded passwords…

Cisco Routers

Understanding MPLS IP VPNs, Security Attacks and…

What Are MPLS Networks? Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks are the next-generation of networks designed to allow customers create end-to-end circuits across any type of transport m…

Cisco Firewalls

Cisco ASA Firepower Threat Defense (FTD): Downloa…

One Appliance – One Image is what Cisco is targeting for its Next Generation Firewalls. With this vision, Cisco has created a unified software image named “Cisco Firepower Threat Defense”. In t…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

TCP Header Anaylsis - Section 5: TCP Window Size…

Our fifth section contains some very interesting fields that are used by the TCP transport protocol. We see how TCP helps control how much data is transferred per segment, make sure there are no erro…

Windows Servers

Free Webinar: Migrating from Hyper-V to VMware

If your organization is planning to migration from a Hyper-V virtualization environment to VMware then this FREE webinar is just for you. Aimed toward Hyper-V and VMware admins this webinar will cov…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

TCP Header Anaylsis - Section 4: TCP Flag Options

As we have seen in the previous pages, some TCP segments carry data while others are simple acknowledgements for previously received data. The popular 3-way handshake utilises the SYNs and ACKs avail…

Cisco Routers

How To Fix Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP)…

Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP) is Cisco’s latest GUI administration tool used to administer Cisco routers. CCP is basically the next step up from the popular Security Device Manager or SDM. U…

Windows Servers

Understanding, Creating, Configuring & Applying W…

This article explains what Group Policies are and shows how to configure Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Group Policies. Our next article will cover how to properly enforce Group Policies (Group…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Understanding, Avoiding & Protecting Against Cros…

This article explains what a web browser cookie is and examines how Cross Site Request Forgery work by allowing hackers to intercept and access web browser cookies from unaware users trying to l…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

TCP Header Anaylsis - Section 3: TCP Header Lengt…

The third field under close examination is the TCP Header length. There really isn't that much to say about the Header length other than to explain what it represents and how to interpret its values…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Web Application Vulnerabilities – Benefits of Aut…

This article examines the differences between logical and technical web application vulnerabilities which tends to be a very confusing topic especially for web application developers and security – p…

Routing

Routing Information Protocol - RIP

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance-vector routing protocol that is commonly used in small to medium-sized networks. It is one of the oldest routing protocols still in use today, h…