Questions On Attacks And Mitigations

“Attack the Block” is a British film consisting of many genres including science fiction, horror, action and comedy, written and directed by Joe Cornish. Released in 2011, the film revolves around a major theme, demonstrating that all actions have consequences, but it also mentions a bit of redemption, as the characters must save themselves from evil creatures, as well as save London. The film also has plenty of commentary about perceptions and attitudes towards class and the police in England. We see how the police leap to conclusions and unerringly arrest the wrong people for the wrong reasons. “Attack the Block” highlights the disenfranchised immigrant youth in England surviving according to the rules and laws of their “Block”. They are already profiled as criminals due to how they look and where they live. They have to follow the rules of their environment in order to live their lives normally or even to survive day to day.

Bug was introduced to OpenSSL in December 2011 and has been out in the wild since OpenSSL release 1.0.1 on 14th of March 2012. OpenSSL 1.0.1g released on 7th of April 2014 fixes the bug. The vulnerable versions have been out there for over two years now and they have been rapidly adopted by modern operating systems. A major contributing factor has been that TLS versions 1.1 and 1.2 came available with the first vulnerable OpenSSL version (1.0.1) and security community has been pushing the TLS 1.2 due to earlier attacks against TLS (such as the BEAST). (Codenomicon, 2014)

Dougherty, C., Householder, A., & Houle, K. (2002). Computer attack trends challenge Internet security. Computer, 35(4), 0005-7.

A couple of questions that Believe this story answered are: Are parents really human? Will the family stand behind its members? How does the family handle adversity? First, Mr. Robison’s story about his dad is a primary example of parents begin human. No one is perfect, and having a father like Mr. Robison has shown this. His father didn’t have a simple idea that his son existed, but he was willing to be part of his family when he came to the realization. Second, this story shows that even those Mr. Robison’s father wasn’t a part of his family most of his life, he was by his side when his mother died. Not only was he there for just his son, but the other

The Department of Homeland Security realized its in-ability to protect key assets and critical infrastructure if it perused a government alone approach and has focused on partnerships. A government alone approach, as Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the US Homeland Security, noted is not sustainable "It is beyond Washington's means to assume the burden of micromanaging every critical business activity in the United States or supplying sufficient personnel to guarantee a reduction in the vulnerabilities of these activities." (Chertoff, 2008-09). To effectively protect key assets and critical infrastructure DHS focus on equal public-private partnerships.

The Internet is a global public network and it is the Universal source of information. It has become a popular medium for commercial activities. Millions of dollars of transactions occur daily in many financial organizations through Internet. The internet along with digital technologies has taken human life into much higher levels of sophistication and ease. The growth of Internet has brought about great benefits to the modern society; meanwhile, the rapidly increasing connectivity and accessibility to the Internet has posed a security threat. With the tremendous growth of network-based services and sensitive information on networks, network security is getting more and more import than ever. The attacks on the Internet have become both more prolific and easier to implement because of the ubiquity of the Internet and the pervasiveness of easy-to-use operating systems and development environments.

Use this section to describe any network security vulnerabilities. Use the scenario along with industry standards and best practices to identify the vulnerabilities. Describe why it is vulnerable and what the implication is if it is not mitigated.

An attack is any malicious or accidental disruption in the confidentially, integrity, or availability of information and network resources. Attacks can come from many places, electronic, physical, or human. Electronics attacks may come from the external network (Internet) or the internal network (Intranet); physical attacks can come in the form of hardware and equipment sabotage or theft, and human attacks most often come in the form of social engineering. Some of the attacks identify and evaluate in this paper are: spoofing, replays attacks, access attack suppress-relay, and source and repudiation attack.

Questions for the ASASC* (Plan to attend the meeting when this is discussed to answer other questions)

At first, we will take a look at some statistical numbers we have collected in the past

16. What is the relationship between the MULTICS project and the early development of computer security?

According to Ponemon Institute Research Report , Virus, worms, Trojans and malware are the most common type of attacks. These are most preventable with robust anti-virus and anti-malware software. Many people think that having a good anti-virus or an inbuilt firewall will prevent most of the attacks. These security measures will not control most of the other attacks like Denial of Service, Zero-Day exploits or malicious codes. The same reports also state that the cost of Virus, Worms, Trojans, and Malware attack are the lowest among all other types of attack. (Ponemon Institute 2013). So even if the company spent most of their security budget on anti-virus, it will still incur a huge cost if any other attacks are successful. According to hackmageddon.com, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and SQL Injection (SQLi) are the top two attack techniques in the year 2013 (Passeri 2014). These types of attack can only be prevented with proper network planning and regularly testing network infrastructure for possible security issues. As more and more tools are available to amateur hackers they will try or attempt to break into insecure networks using most vulnerable exploits (DataLossDB, Data Loss - Latest Incidents 2014).

One of the largest problems is that though there is a government organization, DARPA, they do not act as they need to (Gervais 526). The National Research Council, who is supposed to audit the United States’ computers, has not put out a report since 1991 (Gervais 526). International governments and “decision makers” are trying to understand ways of avoiding technological attacks, but have difficulty as cyber warfare changes often making it difficult to understand what we already have (Gervais 526).

In the world of computer and network security, there are myriad ways to launch an attack, which, from the perspective of a network, can usually be defined as "traffic that has vicious intent." There are infinite computer attacks that no firewall can prevent, such as those executed locally on the machine by a malicious user. From the network's perspective, there are numerous types of attack. Attacks can be grouped into two types: brute force and precision. Juniper Firewall has the capability to protect against both types of attack. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are one of the most well-known network security threats under brute force attacks, which is largely due to the high-profile way in which they can

Rc4 is a stream figure made by Ron Rivest in 1980s. cryptographic count was known good to go division in 1994 and is as of now is the generally used stream figure. It has a long history of cryptographic examination and cryptographic ambushes, most noticeably the ambush on its utilization in the WEP gathering. There are number of weakness found in the first place byte stream. Yet none of these inadequacies were demonstrated to allow a judicious attack against Rc4. they are gigantic enough to instruct a great deal regarding individuals in the cryptographic gathering to recommend against its usage. due to execution and no matter how you look at it apportionment, it has transformed into a common figure suite in SSL/TLS. However late research appear to have made full plaintext recovery ambushes on Rc4. One of these attacks is a show attack, recovers the plaintext when it is sent again and again in various different