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A domain hack is a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name when concatenating two or more adjacent levels of that domain. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For example, ro.bot and examp.le , using the domains .bot and .le , suggest the words robot and example respectively.
Cross-site request forgery is an example of a confused deputy attack against a web browser because the web browser is tricked into submitting a forged request by a less privileged attacker. CSRF commonly has the following characteristics: It involves sites that rely on a user's identity. It exploits the site's trust in that identity.
Domain hijacking or domain theft is the act of changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of its original registrant, or by abuse of privileges on domain hosting and registrar software systems.
The typosquatter's URL will usually be similar to the victim's site address; the typosquatting site could be in the form of: A misspelling, or foreign language spelling, of the intended site; A misspelling based on a typographical error; A plural of a singular domain name; A different top-level domain (e.g., .com instead of .org)
The organization has a user base of over a million, [2] though the number of active members is believed to be much lower. The most users online at the same time was 19,950 on February 5, 2018 at 2:46 a.m. CT. [2] HackThisSite involves a small, loose team of developers and moderators who maintain its website, IRC server, and related projects.
The W3C's Content Security Policy Level 2 Recommendation provides an alternative security directive, frame-ancestors, which is intended to obsolete the X-Frame-Options header. [ 48 ] A security header like X-Frame-Options will not protect users against clickjacking attacks that are not using a frame.
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
Another classification is by the action against the vulnerable system; unauthorized data access, arbitrary code execution, and denial of service are examples. Exploitations are commonly categorized and named [ 9 ] [ 10 ] by the type of vulnerability they exploit (see vulnerabilities for a list) [ clarification needed ] , whether they are local ...