Denial-of-service attack

Hacker access, activist access, an insider attack. Hacker access involves an outside entity gaining access to the network via unpatched systems, vulnerability, or by any other technical means. Activist access consists of a hacker affecting the network maliciously with a political or moral agenda in mind. Insider attack can be the most dangerous of the three. This involves someone within the organization do harm to the network using…

They are not sure what causes the breach in the first place, but they assume based on the emails it could be a hacker and their concern is if their customer’s database was compromised. And they believe that the security breach was caused by the “DOS attack”. Also,…

employee romance gone bad Workstation 3 5 Fire destroys primary data center System/Application 1 6 Service provider service level agreement (SLA) is not achieved User 2 7 Workstation operating system (OS) has a known software vulnerability Workstation 3 8 Unauthorized access to organization-owned workstations Workstation 2 9 Loss of production data server System/Application 1 10 Denial of service attack on organization Demilitarized zone (DMZ) and e-mail server System/Application 2 11 Remote…

Security Onion intrusion detection system will be selected, installed, and evaluated. A trial deployment of the intrusion detection system will be attempted in a restricted environment, then a simulated attack will be carried out, and the results analysed. Security Onion is an IDS tool that is used to monitor network security, and log management. It contains other tools like sguil, snort, Bro, Suriacata, and OSSEC amongst others. The main functions of Security Onion are capturing packets,…

differences mean for security? Security is the main concern for many VoIP hosting providers. VoIP servers are susceptible to malicious attack, as any other computers or servers are. Whether you choose a hosted or premise-based VoIP solution, be aware of the following security risks: Fraud: Attackers gain access to a network, only to siphon off minutes or steal service at others’ expense. If proper encryption methods are not used to authenticate users on a network, hackers can steal user…

been incorporated into the original Health Information Profitability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of which is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH): In 2009, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which includes the HITECH Act. On March 26,2013, HHS enacted a final Omnibus rule to implement several provisions of the HITECH Act. These provisions aim to strengthen the…

Considering the population of a nation as large as the United States the importance of uninterrupted services from both healthcare providers and public health cannot be understated. With twelve different critical infrastructures, all of which face widespread threats on a daily basis, the Healthcare and Public Health critical sector must remain diligent and decisive in overcoming natural and man-made threats. To do this, private sector organizations are expected to fulfill crucial functions in…

the origin and the intention of the threat are equally important. Moreover, a bigger attack could be preceded by small sniffing attacks to gauge the weakness in the security. Effective monitoring tools should be capable of detecting these forms of attacks, analyzing their intent and determine the scope of damage that could be caused in case of a security breach. Attacks such as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) target servers by sending large numbers of connection requests within a short span…

Widgets “R” US IR Plan The person who discovers the incident will call the grounds dispatch office. List possible sources of those who may discover the incident. The known sources should be provided with a contact procedure and contact list. Sources requiring contact information may be: Helpdesk Intrusion detection monitoring personnel A system administrator A firewall administrator A business partners A manager The security department or a security person. Help Desk (XXX-XXX)…

Subsequently, attacks against switches, routers, and networks may have serious consequences on the efficiency in addition to control functions of the power system. These attacks can take the form of network interference through the injection of ad-hoc crafted streams of packets designed to flood the network. Another form is single implementation…