Internal attacks can be more difficult to find as attackers have the potential to remove any evidence of the attack more easily as they have more knowledge or access rights on the system as opposed to an outside attack. Attacks can be administrated via removable devices such as a USB that could contain some form of malware on it such as a virus. Most internal attacks are conducted by unhappy employees who want to disrupt the organisation by using the knowledge they obtained in the organisation, against the organisation. Additionally, the employee may want to gain access to important data in order to infiltrate and sell the information onto another competing organisation. The
An attacker is able to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack from a single computer that has attacked you before. 10. An intern can access several user accounts after learning their birthdays and pets names. 11. An attacker crashes your Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server database exploiting a vulnerability from 2008.
Infecting the boot sector and potentially controlling the operating system, attaching itself to a certain program, activating when you run your program and deactivation when the program is shutdown, loading itself into the memory, or waiting for a specific date and time. A Trojan horse is malicious and will hide itself within a trusted program, simulates a legitimate program causing damage to the computer or network during program execution. Two viruses that commanded the attention of the media were Melissa and ILOVEYOU viruses. Individually striking within fourteen months of each other and exposing the weaknesses in e-mail security and the lack of software to scan these files prior to opening. To be familiar with the person sending the e-mail was not acceptable anymore and it raised awareness
D) A denial of service attack occurs when the perpetrator e-mails the same message to everyone on one or more Usenet newsgroups LISTSERV lists. A) A denial of service attack occurs when the perpetrator sends hundreds of messages from randomly generated false addresses, overloading an Internet service provider's e-mail server. 8) Gaining control of someone else's computer to carry out illicit activities without the owner's knowledge is known as A) hacking. B) hijacking. C)
A warrant was issued for his arrest after police wanted to question him in relation to an assault in the Sydney suburb of Zetland. At about 7pm (AEDT) on December 29, a 50-year-old Zetland man was allegedly assaulted and his Mercedes four-wheel-drive was stolen from his home. The alleged thief was someone whom the man had met online, police said. The NSW Supreme Court was told in 2005 that Jennings had stabbed Giuseppe Vitale in the neck with a kitchen knife after being tied up during a sexual liaison with the man, whom he had met through the internet. He was found not guilty of murdering Giuseppe Vitale on grounds of mental illness in 2005 by the NSW Supreme Court.
I rate these probes like this as they are the detection methods used by hackers to enter a network; they are not the attack themselves. References Gregory M. (Chip) Pyles Jr., Ping sweeps and port scans (n.d.) retrieved from http://gregorympyles.wordpress.com/information-systems/case-studies/ping-sweeps-and-port-scans/ Teo, L. (2000, December 01). Network probes explained: understanding port scans and ping sweeps. Retrieved from
After pleading guilty to wiretapping charges, Christopher Chaney has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison. By hacking into the e-mail accounts of fifty celebrities, stretching from actress and model Scarlett Johansson, to Victoria’s Secret Model, Mila Kunis, the thirty-six year-old Florida male was able to steal nude photos, and personal information from the stars. Chaney was conscious of the severity of his acts, saying the habit was an addiction, and when he was arrested in October of last year, he even apologized for his acts. He told reporters quote, "I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience…And these people don't have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of
Jeffrey dahmer was born with two parents who loved him. He was wanted and loved .How did this great start in life turn into the beginning of a story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers? Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 and killed in jail on November 28, 1994. He was in jail for fifteen life sentences for the seventeen lives he had taken. Dahmer had a bad alcohol problem he got kicked out of his house and discharged from the army for his problem.
IT550 Assignment Unit 1 Kaplan University As the digital age progresses, more and more business is conducted electronically. Symbiotically illegal activities of those that wish to prosper from security vulnerabilities will increase. Cybercrime can be motivated by a number of factors including terrorism. Cyberterrorism is any terrorist act that uses computers as the vehicle for their attack. Cyber terrorists can be motivated to target organizations that will result in the radical’s group to cause the most harm and/or receive the most attention for their party.
Charles was arrested in Indiana and escaped from a juvy center after just four days confinement, getting away in a stolen car. On his way to visit some Illinois relatives, the then 13 year old performed more robberies. Manson had been sent off to a reform school in Plainfield, Indiana, where he spent three years. At this location, he recollects violent abuse by older boys and guards. If we can find it possible to trust his memory, he claims at least one guard encouraged other boys to rape and torture Manson, while the officer masturbated on the