Tag: DNS
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DNS Poisoning
DNS poisoning is the act of intercepting DNS requests and sending spoofed responses. This can be done as most DNS requests are sent in plaintext, making it easy to intercept. These attacks are actually quite common as most routers use it censor adult websites on devices. In this article, we’ll go over ways to perform…
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Portmaster: Privacy Oriented Firewall
Safing’s Portmaster is an open source firewall that allows users to monitor and block network activity. Its primary purpose is to protect privacy by blocking malicious connections from apps and hiding the computer’s IP address. In this article, I will go over my experiences with setting up and using Portmaster. Setup Installing Portmaster was simple, I…