Denial-of-service attacks

In recent years, Cyber-attacks have become a more common form of terrorism used against the United States. Cyber-terrorist have the ability to access bank accounts, shut down systems, and send malicious viruses to ordinary citizens from the comfort of their home. It may be possible for terrorist to hack into States and Federal systems, which would be catastrophic on a global level; cyber-attacks are happening more and more often than they should. This type of cybercriminals has cost the US…

Internet is progressively used as a tool of organized crime. Cybercrime is apparently form of international crime that has been affected by the revolution globally in Informational Communication and Technology. Digital crime, Terrorism, and/or Attacks Formerly, cybercrimes were committed by individual or groups with no decent organization, whereas currently, organized crime structures and highly trained professionals are deeply involved in this profitable criminal activity. Cybercrime is…

passwords are controlled and changed in accordance with the Password Policy. Authorized Networked Devices Policy: The security features necessary to minimize risks to communication equipment must be configured in the equipment before it is placed into service. There are two possible roles for the staff that manages the communication equipment: monitoring and administrator. The monitoring role has…

mobile devices keeps growing exponentially. Mobile devices, especially smartphones are easily accessible and with internet service they have become essential to people. The use of internet on mobile devices is called Internet of Things (IoT) services and they are monitored through the use of smartphone applications and services. There are thousands of applications or services that smartphones can do. For example, GPS,…

backup should be located in a geographically separate location, and in a fireproof, waterproof vault. Extra security equipment or software such as firewalls and proxy servers should be used to prevent downtime due to malicious attacks such as denial-of-service DOS attacks and network…

Intro, Importance, and Summary (U) In 2015, the United States Government suffered the biggest cyber-attack against a federal agency to date. The Office of Personnel Management reported that up to 21.5 million instances of personal data was stolen by hackers. Many more attacks have occurred recently, and cyber-attacks have become a common occurrence with billions of attacks carried out on various federal agencies each year. Pew Research Center recently conducted a study, and found that the…

Because of the global impact of such attacks, routing security is a critical issue for the whole Internet infrastructure. Attacks on routing protocols can cause legitimate traffic to flow over unsecure paths and create various types of security exposure for higher layer protocols ranging from eavesdropping to denial of service. Several routing protocols are used to exchange network topology and routing table information between routers…

been behind the assault, affirming its administration 's refusal of any association to Sony’s attack. On the other hand, a similar assault as Sony’s utilizing the coding “Dark Seoul” was previously used in an attack against South Korean in 2013. The South Korean government faults the North for hacking their government networks. Unfortunately, it remains unclear if North Korea involvement in the cyber-attack, however, these cyber criminals had insider assistance. A previous employee who was fired…

Dogs have been used to help people with disabilities get around, calm anxiety attacks, and even predict when different medical attacks are about to occur. With dogs being so helpful, many universities have incorporated play time with animals into their campus activities and even their curriculum. Auburn University is one of the amazing campuses that allow students the time and the access to play with animals, particularly dogs (Recchio, 2015). These classes allow students to have an hour of what…

known as the first computer worm. This virus was able to rapidly spread and closed down 10% of the internet. This attack was known as one of the first DoS attacks (Denial of Service). This is what fueled the thinking of Cyber Security. This was the foundation for cyber security to build on. In the 1990s, people and the government didn’t really know how to respond to Cyber-attacks due to no experience. This lead to the organizations CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Team) being…