Load Testing Vs Stress Testing

Similar to my previous posts, Differences IPv4 Vs IPv6 and Differences Routing Vs Routed protocol, below is difference between Load Testing and Stress Testing.

Load Testing	Stress Testing
Finds out application behavior under normal or predefined workload conditions	Finds out application behavior under extreme workload conditions
Does not aim to break application under test	Aims to find out breaking point for application under test
Finds out bugs such as memory leaks, buffer overflows	Finds out unpredictable issues that application might encounter
Ensures performance baseline established during performance testing.	Helps find out fault tolerance and recoverability for your application when it fails or breaks.
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Its very basic but useful. I will be adding points to same post as and when necessary if required.

Whitepaper on “hacking oracle from the web”

Last month 7safe blog has posted whitepaper about hacking oracle from the web. Document describes different techniques that can be used to attack Oracle from web.

It can be downloaded from this URL. 
Direct link to this whitepaper on “hacking oracle from the web”.

Operation Aurora exploit in Google Attack

As publicly disclosed by Google, an attack hit Google and other few companies, is now described as Operation Aurora. Why is this attack called Operation Aurora? A post titling, Operation Aurora: Clues in the Code at Secure works is good read.  (If someone has more good reference then drop your comments below.)

A post at praetorianprefect.com has video that shows Aurora Exploit in action using metasploit.

Twitter is over capacity

As usual, I was checking out my http://twitter/techsutram account and twitter presented me with surprising over capacity message.

Windows PowerShell – a free eBook from Microsoft

Yesterday, one of my friends called me to ask if I have any book on Windows PowerShell. I told him that I don’t have any book on Windows PowerShell, however, I do remember that there is free eBook available from Microsoft. So below are the links for downloading Windows PowerShell eBook from Microsoft and its associated demo files.

Download Windows PowerShell eBook + Associated Demo files