Botnet

against each other. It is estimated that up to 80% of cyber-crimes today, which are involved in malware creation, botnet management, harvesting of personal and financial data, data sale, etc., are a result of organised activity. The Europol has warned of the huge potential of increase in the volume of organised cyber-crime, especially with respect to the possibility of creation of botnets of mobile phones and the vulnerability of the corporate world due to the number of private devices…

Running head: Technology and Cyber-security Technology and Cyber-security 7 Technology and Cyber-security Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction Cyber security has become a serious trade-off, a tag of war technical war between the defender and the attack. The vast changes in technology affect both; defenders are using technology to fend off attackers, and attackers employing the same technology to get away with the defenders? scope of defection. In the present…

covert introduction of malware into SCADA that resulted in a large-scale explosion and major damage to a Soviet gas pipeline (as cited in Krepinevich, 2012). So it is possible. Aside from its ability to execute massive DDoS attacks, the Conficker botnet could crack sophisticated codes, perhaps enabling its controller to breach, compromise, and even destroy protected databases. By early 2009, Conficker B invaded the United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry. Purpose of Conficker, no one knows. Some…

Cyber Security: The Concept Protecting ICT systems alongside their content is popularly known as cyber security. Without a doubt, the concept is both broad and fuzzy. Although useful, the term lacks a precise definition since it refers to either one or three of the following components, as elucidated by Fischer (2015): 1. A collection of activities and measures aimed at protection from attacks, disruptions, or threats to computers and their networks, related hardware and software, as well as…

Conficker, a botnet or virus, affected several Windows operating systems such as Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems which lacked patches and had access to the internet (Krepinevich, 2012; Mills, 2009; Ackerman, 2009). Once it infiltrated an organization’s system, it mended the breach located at Port 445 to inhibit other malware from exploiting the system’s vulnerability (Krepinevich,…

With everyday life increasingly spent using computers and mobile devices, the privacy and security of your information is of a critical important. It doesn’t matter if you a big organization or a social user cyber security affects everyone. cybersecurity should be a top priority for all organization big all small. Given the advance change in the land scape, even the most trained team of administrators would have a difficult time keeping up. Information assurance company must conduct penetration…

Not only has one of the computers became a zombie of a botnet army and attacked a computer on another network not controlled by the library’s ISP, but there is no cyber security software installed on any of these computers to prevent infestation by viruses or malware. Therefore, my solution to install cyber…

“M-Commerce Security” by Laurie J. Fundukian Over the past years’ mobile devices and mobile telephones have been used worldwide now. According to L.J.Fundukian (2012), “The emergence of the wireless tablet computer, m-commerce is emerging as a major player in the world of retailing, social networking, and entertainment and the main potential threat from mobile device use is identity theft”. Computers and other mobile devices can be scrutinized by malicious codes for personal…

website. Although, attackers such as Anonymous, use software like “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” to spoof legitimate traffic intentionally to take down company servers. This act is keyed as “ddosing,” which is the practice of taking down larger servers through botnets or compromising system resources to lock up the actual system. Ddosing comes in two different fashions, the first being that it exploits a system resource, causing the system to hang. The second is when a group of nodes are channeled…

denial-of-service attack. Second, routers which are used at the core of the network can be affected by modifying the behaviour of router to launch denial-of-service attack. One example is massive distributed denial-of-service attacks generated by BOTNETS which is triggered to manipulate the system without user’s knowledge. ‘The attack is triggered with a single packet, absorbs all bandwidth of the outgoing link on the router, and can propagate to all vulnerable downstream routers’(Chaski, D,Wu,…