Denial-of-service attack

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[W]e live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. The convergence of computer networks and telecommunications facilitated by the digital technologies has given birth to a common space called ‘cyberspace’. This cyberspace has become a platform for major human activities which converge on the Internet 21st Century . The cyberspace has, in fact, become the most happening place today. Internet is increasingly…

nature of security threats to Information Technology (IT) continues to be a major concern for modern organizations and businesses. IT infrastructures, which have become the cornerstone of organizational management, are highly vulnerable to potential attacks and sabotage. IT vulnerabilities may be attributable to internal and external sources (McNamara, 1998; Yeh and Chang, 2007). As Colwill (2010) notes, these sources can be intentional or accidental. IT threats are multilayered. They involve a…

Sometimes an activity that the user may think is private may not necessarily be. There are virtually no online activities or services that guarantee 100% privacy. Today, most people depend upon computers manage information and surf the Internet. Since there is such a great deal of dependence upon computers, it is of utmost important that users feel secure utilizing them. Users…

of defense could be encryption of the device's data. While this encryption may not directly defend against the malware, it may prevent it from reading sensitive data and/or instigating a denial of service attack. An idea we came up with after writing our white paper plays off the fact that mirai will not attack certain IP's, such as Government IP's, those of major corporations, or any devices on the local network. We were wondering if making the device spoof one of these IP's when communicating…

social media called Twitter. This individual wanted to silence blogger Georgy Jakhaia, who speaks openly against the Russian government. It affected so much of Facebook and the online social media LiveJournak, making them almost lose service as well. Thirdly, there is an attack committed by WikiLeaks. Their victim was Master-Card. They wanted to punish Master-Cart for not processing donations to WikiLeaks; also, this affected the Swedish prosecution authority offline due to a prior…

The foundation of computer crimes lies with The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986, 18 U.S.C. 1030. According to Easttom and Taylor (2011), the CFAA was a federal act which provided protection of computer systems that were part of a federal entity or financial-institution. Over time and through a series of congressional hearings, lawmakers have amended and tailored language in a manner to protect the government's interest in computer crimes while striking a balance with the ability of…

hundreds of millions of lines of code. The number of potential entry points to a network expands continually as more devices are added. This will increase the probability of security breaches and other security attacks. There are various types of computer attacks. Some of the common attacks, including the virus, worm, Trojan horse, spam,…

available at any given time which could result in a node becoming unavailable for communication when its power is depleted. These wireless links are also susceptible to attacks. Unlike wired networks in which the adversary first needs to gain actual physical access to the network, in wireless ad-hoc networks the adversary can attack from any link and target any node. These ad-hoc networks don’t have a clear defence line, as such each and every node must be prepared to defend itself from threats.…

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 information contained or communicated, such as software and data, in addition to aspects of cyberspace; 2. The quality or state of protection…