request on a network, also known as a ping, to the target computers and find out if they are reachable (Conklin, White 2010). If they get a response from any computer on the network then it is reachable and that is where an intruder can start his or her attack, moving on to the next step of the process (Teo 2005). When the intruder finds a computer or computers that are reachable they can now perform a port scan. Port scans “look” at a computer that is accessible and scans for open ports. When an
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Private Investigators LLC Controls and Countermeasures Private Investigators Limited Liability Company (LLC) has a small office with one server and six workstations. This LLC partnership hosts its own website that allows clients to log in and enter case information. An evaluation of the network and security configuration to determine threats and weakness to the existing system has been completed. A list of the top five associated threats for the Server, Workstations, and Website are outlined
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more than one way in order to come up with a solution. This essay reminds me of a fable by Isiah Berlin told to me by an old professor of mine. In this fable the fox is a cunning creature, able to devise a myriad of complex strategies for sneak attacks upon the hedgehog. Day in and day out, the fox circles around the hedgehog’s den, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. Fast, sleek, beautiful, and crafty—the fox looks like the sure winner. The hedgehog, on the other hand, is a dowdier creature
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network adaptor in promiscuous mode so that it can see all network traffic on the wire, a process referred to as packet sniffing. Snort is a rule-based IDS, which means that it applies a set of rules to each packet based on known attack signatures. When it detects an attack signature, it performs the action designated in the rule. 3. What are the advantages of logging more information to the alerts file? The advantage of logging more information in the alerts file gives the network
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Match the attacks on the left with the vulnerabilities on the right that allows each attack to succeed. 1. An attacker is able to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack from a single computer that has attacked you before. 2. An intern can access several user accounts after learning their birthdays and pets names. 3. An attacker crashes your Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server database exploiting a vulnerability from 2008. 4. Your Web server computer becomes infected
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of traditional software development and business practices(Symantec 2008). What's more, while yesterday's attack activity consisted of a single compromise aimed at gaining access to the data on a computer, current attack techniques are multi-staged. Hackers use their initial compromise to establish a beachhead from which they can launch subsequent attacks. With an estimated 1.25 billion Internet users worldwide, according to Computer Economics, cybercriminals have never
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Attacks11/23/14 China’s Cyber Attack on Google A majority of the population in the United States has used Google as a search engine to find information. It is often easy to think that whatever information you want to find on the internet can be found through Google. However, in China, that wasn’t always the case. In 2006, Google extended its company to China in hopes to help digitally connect China’s population to more resources over the internet. Unfortunately, opening up Google in China
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German U-20 submarine sunk the Lusitania in less than 20 minutes, 1,198 passengers died and only 761 people survived the incident. The attack happened on the 7th of May 1915, one week into it voyage from New York. A warning was issued from the German Embassy, stating that the risk of attack was high due to the hostile actions around the British isle. This attack also took the lives of 127 Americans. This proved to be a turning point for the Atlantic war. This event set in motion the United States
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Sony Pictures Data Breach Review In this paper I am going to be talking about all aspects of the data breach Sony Pictures experienced starting in early November 2014. As you would expect a data breach is a very serious issue especially for big corporations such as Sony. This data breach all started on November 24th, 2014 when Sony realized they were becoming a victim of a high profile studio wide cyberattack. A cyberattack is when a company has unauthorized people or computers accessing protected
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Network Throughput and Reliability: Preventing Hazards and attacks through Gaming Due to random and unknown threats to the infrastructure of the transportation, telecommunication, and power networks, the economic, security, and people quality life will change strongly and many activities are stopped or delayed. There are many types of threats that can attack any secure system or network; we can be classified them as intentional and non-intentional threats. Also we will consider the natural
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