Cyber-attacks over the recent years have caused strong stirs among corporations and governments enough to warrant the needed attention to fight them. A recent and more damaging attack is the dual attack’s that hit the Bitcoin Virtual currency systems, a decentralized p2p network-based virtual currency that is traded into US dollars and other currencies. The mode of these attacks was a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service). A DDoS attack is an attack in which a multiple of compromised systems
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group known as Anonymous began on the chat boards of 4chan in 2003 as a group of like minded individuals working as a sort of anarchic group. In the intervening eleven years, they have been responsible for several attacks on different websites, groups and governments. Their attacks have been seen as both an act of concerned citizenry, in the cases of child pornography sites, and as a cyber-lynch mob. While most of their activities are illegal, and go against the laws of several governments, the
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sectors since the beginning of the computer era, the increased level of concern over the most recent attacks has resulted in devoting more resources to combat this threat. This paper analyzes numerous cyberattacks by Russian computer enthusiast group Chaos Hackers Crew and other hacktivists during Operation Allied Force in 1999, that included taking down and defacing various NATO and US Government websites, several successful virus propagation attempts on military servers and countless spamming storms
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A Structured Analysis of PHISHING By Prasath Manimaran ID: 20038303 Table of Contents Chapter One – Introduction 1. Research Questions and Objectives……………….…………………………………………….5 Chapter Two – Literature Review & Definition of Phishing 2.1. Literature Review…………………………………………………………………………………………..8 2.1.2. Definitions of Phishing……………………………………………………………………..8 2.1.3. Outcomes of this Study…………………………………………………………………….16 2.2. Research Details 2.2.1. Scope of
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businesses should be concerned about botnets because they can be used to perform distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using hundreds of thousands of compromised computers to bombard websites or servers rendering them inoperable. If a company relies on Internet sales and its website becomes the target of a DDoS attack, this could essentially shut down revenue for that company until the attack stops (Adhikari, R. 2014b). Detection of botnets can be very difficult because many are designed to hide
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Case Study 2: Social Engineering Attacks and Counterintelligence Marilyn Washington Dr. Gideon U. Nwatu CIS 502 November 3, 2013 Abstract The topic of this paper is “Social Engineering Attacks and Counterintelligence.” Social engineering attacks and counterintelligence have major impacts to our national security. In July 2010, the Afghan War Diary was released in WikiLeaks. In October 2010, WikiLeaks also released the largest military leak in history – the Iraq War Logs revealing the
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new iPad owners which included government officials, politicians, journalists, and other important famous people (IPad Security Breach, 2010). The question now arises is that what are the reasons that forced Goatse Firm from hacking into AT&T’s website? Goatse Security officials shared the email addresses and network ID’s to Gawker Media, LLC, after they informed AT&T and the vulnerability was closed (IPad Security Breach, 2010). Some expressed little concern over the security breach stating that
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A. Outline the top five threats to each of the following in the given scenario: 1. The server 2. The workstations 3. The website Threats - Server Rootkits – This software, which is malicious in nature, allows hackers to gain and maintain elevated or administrative access to servers. Often times, this type of software come as an attachment shared among e-mail contacts, and is accidently initiated when saved to a local folder. The software can then hold open a gateway to allow the attacker
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assignment # 2 Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Estonia under attack……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Types of attacks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Threats actors and their motives ……………………………………………………………………………. 6 Who were responsible for the attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 7 Strategic Shifts in Response to attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 8 Conclusions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10 Introduction
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Cyber Security Cyber security is defined as actions taken to safeguard information technology or computer systems against unapproved access or attack. Cyber security has become really important for businesses and modern society today. We are living in a world where information technology and other types of communication systems have a great impact on us because they infiltrate every aspect of our lives. This builds a protection of our intangible assets and actions within cyberspace which are of
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