Denial-of-service attacks

Microsoft adopted the security development lifecycle to help to fight against malicious attacks. The SDL entail and include changing a software development organization 's methods and procedures by incorporating controls that direct and guide to superior software security: the purpose of these modifications is to insert clear and precise security…

anything worth stealing. Now, on the internet, there are other dangers, because your computer could be a launching pad for other attacks. So people might want to break into your computer in order to use it later on as a tool to break into something bigger. These things happen all the time. A lot of DoS (Denial of Service) attacks are based off these types of intrusions. A DoS attack is basically a virtual sit-in in which a hacker uses a computer to send thousands of packets a second at a website…

access the internal service from outside. The unused and unsafe ports should be closed when they are not in use in case of the attacks through these ports. The blocking service prevents the DNS Spoofing, which is an attack to return an incorrect IP address as the response. Secondly, the firewalls restrict the service that are deemed unsafe from inside to outside. Blocking outbound traffic could limit the attackers’ actions once they are a composition if the network. The service prevents the ARP…

step is to see team’s intrapersonal level and their knowledge in order to make them virtual team. I would remind everyone to get understanding of the organization goal. I would ask everyone to come up with process improvement step to avoid future attack, and what can we do to make our product better in the market again. 3.b Assuming that no of the employee had ever worked on a team before, what issues are you likely to face in the early forming stage? How would you overcome these issues? If no…

The best way to evaluate a denial of service (DoS) incident is to base it on the incident analysis that was previously done. From the analysis we had gathered valuable information and this is my evaluation. After getting complaints that the network was running slow I immediately started to do an incident analysis to find out what was happening (Tipton & Frause 2007). So, I decided to use the National Institute of Standards and Technology methodology to seek the answers. Using the Detection…

users who experience a malicious attack to make network resource unavailable by sending just a single packet to the system. It’s a specific type of attack that exploits vulnerabilities in network. Most hacker tend to break down the network system to extract the confidential information without having permission to access. The vulnerabilities found in network is due to following reasons. First, routers which share infrastructure can be affected by denial-of-service attack. Second, routers which…

without their consent. Here an attacker can choose to passively eavesdrop on the network communication and steal the data. Through passive eavesdropping attackers apparently eliminate their presence in the network and make such attacks difficult to detect. The goal of such an attack is to violate the confidentiality of the communications by intercepting the network and sniffing or listening to the routing packets. Also, an adversary can actively influence the communication channel by disrupting,…

Lloyds Bank – DDoS Attack Lloyd bank in the UK was hit with a 2-day Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack just recently in January. This attack left customers unable to access their online banking and prohibited them from making payments. According to the article, Lloyd Bank was among a pool of banks in the UK that were targeted. Fortunately, the banking information of Lloyd Bank’s clients remained safe as a DDoS attack only brings down a network’s ability to function properly, but it…

Cyber Attacks on Financial Institutions Over the past few years the global financial sectors have become victims to an overwhelming increase in cyber security criminal attacks on financial institutions around the world. Hackers are the single most dangerous enemy facing financial institutions today because of their malicious intent to obtain financial gains or harm the reputation of companies. Last year hackers took aim at JPMorgan Chase and a number of other banks, stealing customer and other…

Case Study #2: Disaster Recovery / IT Service Continuity Name Institution Affiliation Case Study #2: Disaster Recovery / IT Service Continuity Overview. Disaster recovery also known as business contingency plan is the ability for a business to be able to deal with any occurring disaster (Snedaker, 2013). We need to know that incase of disasters such data breach it is normally impossible for the business processes to run smoothly. In that case, disaster recovery plan incorporates all the…