“Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to” (Ishmael Beah, 29). At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah’s world was turned upside-down, in the shock of the first few months’ experience with the civil war, he was not yet ready to change with the mercurial situations he finds himself in. The civilization he once knew as “home” was being rendered by attacking rebels
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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. The event took place on King Street, Massachusetts. During this event, the British soldiers ruthlessly murdered five innocent civilians and injured six others. The growing tension between the colonists and the British soldiers was a direct result of the Townshend Acts of 1768. The continuous rivalry between the two progressed into a violent memory in American history. The British soldiers that participated in the Boston Massacre should have been sent
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chapter 2 1. Why is information security a management problem? What can management do that Technology cannot? Management is an information problem due to the fact that policymaking and training of securing systems from users fall into the responsibility of their role. These responsibilities can include limiting access as well as disabling certain functions that are not related to the organizations’ function. Management can set policies that may arise due to improper uses or manipulations
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the speed of the line. 4) The two tools that I research on that attacker use are attacking on your password , access attacks or DoS attack. Access attacks: first they will try to bait people go into get information from their own access and hack their way into it. Then find the way to get on to authentication services, then FTP service Password attacks: password attack usually refers to repeated attempts to identify a user account, password or both. These repeated attempts are called brute
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Service) attacks target network bandwidth or connectivity. Bandwidth attacks overflow the network with a high volume of traffic using existing network resources, thus depriving the legitimate users of these resources. Connectivity attacks overflow a computer with a large amount of connection requests, consuming all available operating system resources so that the computer cannot process legitimate user's requests.” (EC-COUNCIL 6-3) Our network has suffered a type of DoS attack that was carried
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network service provider. Company experienced Disturbed Denial of Service attack (DDoS attack) in June 2011. DDos attacks occur when multiple computers are exploited to execute and amplify an attack. The attackers bombarded Network Solution servers with packets causing the load on the company’s servers. The attack left the customers unable to access servers, email accounts, hosted websites or DNS servers. As the further impact of attack, the call centers lines of the service provider was jammed by the queries
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six year old, a sense of control and command. Nothing else in my world operated that way."[3] Project Rivolta On February 7, 2000, Calce targeted Yahoo! with a project he named Rivolta, meaning “riot” in Italian.[3] Rivolta was a denial-of-service attack in which servers become overloaded with different type of communications to the point where they shut down completely.[4] At the time, Yahoo! was a multibillion dollar web company and the top search engine.[5] Mafiaboy's Rivolta managed to shut down
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Recommendations: This attack on university was DDos attack. However, the attack initiated from the inside network. Following are the recommend defensive measures to counter such type of attack. 1. Prevent systems from installation of attack tools: The attacker was able to install attacking software on many lab computers. These computers (secondary victims) were then participated in this DDoS attack. One of the precautionary steps that can be taken to prevent such type of attack is preventing installation
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compromise every time a cyber attack occurs. Consumers want to know that their money is protected when they put in a financial institution. The personal information that consumers are required to present, for instance Name, Date of Birth, account number, in order so they can withdraw money needs to be safeguarded. According to Servidio and Taylor in their article about safeguarding community banks, “many small and medium-size banks lack the resources they need to fight cyber attacks” (2015). Countering
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internal system was conducting a man-in-the-middle attack by spoofing an internal Internet Protocol address, whereby all traffic that was sent to a specific location was involuntarily sent to another system. The culprit was lack of access controls, central reporting systems, authentication controls, and a lack of host based intrusion prevention systems. These controls and systems would have prevented this type or at minimal detected this type of attack and could have saved the company many hours of labor
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