Showing posts with label cryptography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cryptography. Show all posts

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Less perks and more pitfalls of cryptocurrency

I was always wondering to invest or not to invest in cryptocurrency. I started looking all articles that exist on the internet. Majority of articles were reflecting the same in terms of advantages and disadvantages. However, after reviewing almost 50 different articles, what I have analyzed is there are more pitfalls with fewer perks.

So I gathered all pitfalls of bitcoin to cover them in the single article. Those are as follows. Thanks to the industry contributors.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Http Tunneling

Most of the companies and enterprises use proxies and firewalls for their company’s network security. But majority firewalls and proxies block most or all other services but one – http/https. They allow traffic to destination port 80 or 443 to pass in order for their employees to surf the web. So this particular behavior of the firewall can be exploited in order to connect to remote servers with services running on different ports other than 80 or 443. Let us see how.