A Review on Maintaining Web Applications and Brute Force Attack

Now a days ,almost all generations are using technology. Every and other person is active on social media like Facebook, twitter, as well mail accounts. Each and every organizations,institutes,companies are having their own web portals. Every site is handling lots of data. This data is in terms of product ,employee information, financial data etc.. Most of the time the data attributes are confidential. Through the use of emerging data technologies like cloud computing,Big data etc. these data gets properly stored and accessed. People are using Internet are exchanging information and communicating with each other for business and Personal purpose.Everyone needs safe and secure way of communication.This paper is discussing different aspects of network security-threats,attacks and Vulnerabilities. Theweaknesses in web application security are also discussed. The network security aspects such as authentication,  Confidentiality, Integrity are also discussed.Different attack methodology like Hidden Field Manipulation attack,Parameter Tampering attack,Buffer Overflow attack (Denial of Service), SQL Injection etc. are also discussed. The paper is focusing on Brute force attack,reverse Brute force attack.The different tools like Aircrack-ng,John the Ripper, Rainbow crack,Cain and Abel, Hashcat,Ncrack are explained. Hacker’s/attacker’s purpose and malware activities are identified. Precautionary measures are mentioned against Brute force attack in this paper.Like the Wordpress brute force attack has occurred and the team monitored the attack and traced its consequences are also discussed in this paper. Also Microsoft office365 brute force attack is given in this pape