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  2. ifconfig - Wikipedia

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    Many Linux distributions have deprecated the use of ifconfig and route in favor of the software suite iproute2, such as ArchLinux [3] or RHEL since version 7, [4] which has been available since 1999 for Linux 2.2. [5] iproute2 includes support for all common functions of ifconfig(8), route(8), arp(8) and netstat(1). It also includes multicast ...

  3. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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    The first public release of Crack was version 2.7a, which was posted to the Usenet newsgroups alt.sources and alt.security on 15 July 1991. Crack v3.2a+fcrypt, posted to comp.sources.misc on 23 August 1991, introduced an optimised version of the Unix crypt() function but was still only really a faster version of what was already available in other packages.

  4. Downgrade attack - Wikipedia

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    A downgrade attack, also called a bidding-down attack, [1] or version rollback attack, is a form of cryptographic attack on a computer system or communications protocol that makes it abandon a high-quality mode of operation (e.g. an encrypted connection) in favor of an older, lower-quality mode of operation (e.g. cleartext) that is typically provided for backward compatibility with older ...

  5. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...

  6. Paradox (warez) - Wikipedia

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    PARADOX (PDX) is a warez–demogroup; an anonymous group of software engineers that devise ways to defeat software and video game licensing protections, a process known as cracking, which is illegal in most jurisdictions. They distribute cracks (software patches), keygens (key generators

  7. tcpdump - Wikipedia

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    Free and open-source software portal; Tcptrace, a tool for analyzing the logs produced by tcpdump; EtherApe, a network mapping tool that relies on sniffing traffic; Ngrep, a tool that can match regular expressions within the network packet payloads; netsniff-ng, a free Linux networking toolkit; Wireshark, a GUI based alternative to tcpdump

  8. Meltdown (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    Meltdown exploits a race condition, inherent in the design of many modern CPUs.This occurs between memory access and privilege checking during instruction processing. . Additionally, combined with a cache side-channel attack, this vulnerability allows a process to bypass the normal privilege checks that isolate the exploit process from accessing data belonging to the operating system and other ...

  9. Snort (software) - Wikipedia

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    Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) [4] created in 1998 by Martin Roesch, founder and former CTO of Sourcefire. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Snort is now developed by Cisco , which purchased Sourcefire in 2013.