dictate that an internal system had done a middle man attack through an internal internet Protocol address, whereby all traffic meant for a particular location was sent to another system unknowingly. The suspect didn't have the right access control central reporting systems, authentication controls, and a lack of host based intrusion prevention systems. These controls and systems are actually meant to act as guide against this kind of attack and save the company several hours of labor costs.
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I believe the worst kind of cyber-attack is a DDoS attack. I believe this is the worst attack because it can substantially damage a company’s reputation, and can be extremely expensive to recover from. For instance,” Over 80 per cent of respondents from the world of financial services placed their losses at over £6,000 per hour and in retail, nearly 70 per cent of respondents say outages would hit them to the tune of £63,545 an hour, in excess of £1,270,890 a day” (Swearingen, 2009). Also, it is
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(Distributed Denial of Service) attack. This type of attack is characterized by flooding the target system(s) with more network traffic than it can process, thereby forcing the system offline or limiting its ability to respond to legitimate traffic to a negligible level. It is different from a DoS (Denial of Service), in that multiple computers (potentially thousands) are used to increase the amount of traffic sent to the victim. The result of the recent attack was the complete shutdown of the
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The definite reasons of the attack and the long-term effects that the attack on Pearl Harbor had on the world are some viewpoints one doesn't see such as whether or not this attack was provoked. Whenever one thinks about it, they might consider that it was. They may also think that it was a total surprise if they were naïve to the warning signs that our government seems to have ignored. In school children are taught that Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack, because it is noted in history
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Service as a Service - Asymmetrical Warfare at Its Finest Introduction Denial of service attack becomes a major problem against computers connected to the Internet. DoS attacks involves exploiting any bugs in such an operating system or any existed vulnerabilities in TCP/IP implementation. Tracking this attack becomes very serious problem, because the attacker uses many machines in order to lunch this kind of attack. On the other hand, since the attackers are human being at least one mistake will occurred
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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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Best Practice Guide for a DDoS Attack WGU – LOT2 Hacking Task 2 Abstract This paper will accompany a PowerPoint presentation about best practices for preventing a DDoS attack. This will be the best practice guide and will be mentioning and elaborating all of the points in the slideshow. Best Practice Guide for a DDoS Attack It is important to have a plan in place when dealing with a DDoS attack. This guide will serve as the best practice
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seemed to reappear claiming responsibility for attacks on popular websites. Vinnie Omari is the member of the squad that was arrested and then bailed out for fraud by false representation – Fraud Act 2006, conspiracy to steal from another, and unauthorized computer access with the intent to commit other offenses. The first claimed attack from the group was on August 18, 2014. The servers for the game League of Legends were taken offline with a DDoS attack. We will highlight other claims in the following
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This incident was named the Moonlight Maze, in which hackers were able to gather thousands of files from government agencies, The Pentagon, NASA, private universities, and research labs. These attacks were traced back to Russian internet addresses, but Russia denied any involvement with sponsoring the attacks. Another incident was when a hacker from the Philippines released the “Love Letter” virus around the world, 1000 files in NASA were damaged. The cost of the recovery ranged from $4 billion to
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1. Information security is more of a management issue because it is up to management to decide what end users should have access to and what they should not. Also technology can only do what it is told to do but if management sets up training to teach end users about the threats of say opening an unknown email then the company is safer. 2. Without data an organization loses its record of transactions and/or its ability to deliver value to its customers. Page 42 Principles of Information Security
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