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Networking, Technology

IPv4 & IPv6

The Internet has run out of Internet addresses or will soon get exhausted.  IPv4’s successor is IPv6, a system that will not only offer far more numerical addresses, but will simplify address assignments and additional network security features.

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Networking, Technology

DNS Cache Poisoning and How Does It Work ?

Cache poisoning is a kind of attack in which corrupted data is inserted into the cache database of DNS(Domain Name System) name server. The Domain Name System ( DNS ) is a system which associates domain names with respective IP addresses. Devices which are connected to the internet or a private network rely on the DNS for resolving URLs into their corresponding IP addresses. During a DNS cache poisoning attack, malicious party sends duplicate responses from an imposter DNS  to reroute a domain name to a new IP address. The new IP address is most likely controlled by the attacker and is used to spread computer worms and other malware. Other sophisticated uses for DNS cache poisoning include denial-of-service attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Operating System - OS, Technology

UEFI, GPT ,BIOS, MBR

 When computers started shipping with UEFI instead of the more traditional BIOS firmware, it made it much more difficult for booting Linux distributions with default motherboard firmware settings. Throw Secure Boot into the mix and it becomes more frustrating. While modern OSes deal with these settings, it’s good to have an idea of the working.

 

 

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Gadgets - Android | IOS, Technology

Xiaomi to launch it’s firstever laptop which is a Macbook Air rival and as cheap as $540

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Xiaomi one of the China’s leading tech company has been quite active recently. Earlier it announced it’s new smartphone device the Redmi Pro and now it is ready to launch it’s first-ever laptop which might be a rival to one of the product (Macbook Air) of the world’s leading tech company Apple. Recently at an event Xiaomi’s VP Hugo Barra officially confirmed this product of the company.It is clear that Xiaomi wants to take Apple head on with this product and who knows it might also leave Apple behind as this new Mi Notebook Air has all the qualities that would attract a lot of folks.

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