zip Bomb
Introduced to zip Bomb This post is about zip bomb and it's working. You will also get a gist of how petabytes of files are converted into smaller files of kilo or mega bytes. Now I will take you through some things that will really intrigue you. Let's get started straight away. What's zip bomb? A zip bomb also known as zip of death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is open employed to disable antivirus software in order to crate opening for traditional types of viruses. Rather than highjacking the normal operation of a program, the zip bomb allows a program to work as intended, the archive is carefully crafted so that unpacking it i.e if an antivirus scans the zip file for viruses, will require inordinate amount of time, disk space or memory. But as everything it has certain limitations ofcourse. This zip fil...