Massive Attack

How a massive cyber-attack affects an organization? When someone talks about information technology is important to talk about cyber-attack, because cybercrimes have increased a lot in recent years. Perceptions about hacking and computer crime are changing because of the increased dependency on the internet into our daily life. In order to continue to provide a safe and secure computing environment, IT professionals need to comprehend the examination of high profile cyber-attacks that includes Target’s

the massive cyber attack into the Bureau of Meteorology’s systems. The recent hack is considered a major one because the Bureau of Meteorology owns one of the biggest supercomputers in Australia. The bureau’s systems are connected to the Department of Defence at Russell Offices in Canberra, according to an ABC report cited by Sky News. Aside from China, another country being suspected of being behind the massive hack is Russia. Non-state criminal entities may also be responsible for the attack, the

are vulnerable to attacks, several factors including people, work process, and technology require attention so as to prevent another major attack from hitting TJX. The people associated with the attack who need attention are the top-level executives and, more importantly, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) auditors. Top-level executives need to understand that IT security is a business issue and not just a technology issue. As seen by the attack, an IT security breach

physical cyber-attacks. They are manipulating social media in a way that teenage kids can be convinced and motivated by the messages that ISIS is putting out to commit these terrible crimes and follow a leader’s orders even when he is thousands of miles away. It is this kind of warfare the United States wasn’t ready for and must adapt to if they want any chance of stopping the Islamic

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Davis, M. in his Stuxnet: How It Happened and How Your Enterprise Can Avoid Similar Attacks, indicated that another case example of SCADA systems being attacked was the cyber-attacks conducted in 2009 and 2010 when the worm referred to as Stuxnet was used. This worm was primarily directed at Iran in their nuclear facilities and was mainly for disruption of their processing mechanism in their enriched uranium deposits industry. Piggin, R. in his journal The Reality of Cyber Terrorism 2010, stated

flood denial of service attack that took the company offline for several days. At a time when only 20 million Americans were online this was one of the first high profile examples of how fragile internet infrastructure could be. Fast forward 20 years and businesses and individuals are now hugely dependent on the Internet services they both offer and use, and the primary threat to the availability of those Internet is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks have evolved consistently

the blacks to feel unsafe in their country with the law enforcement whose principal roles is to protect them. Beside the threats from the homegrown terrorist, America is also facing threats from the radical Islamic groups from overseas. Since the attack of September 11 and the killing of Bin Laden, who was the head of the Al Qaeda group, there have been a rage and revenge of the Islamic group

information. The question was “If they could get into the database, what stopped anyone who had the technological capabilities.” Hosenball said regarding those computer wizards, “They know more than anyone just how vulnerable America is to a massive cyber attack.” The system itself is not the problem. The real problem is that the government is tripping over itself in trying to protect that system. President Obama has decided to leave the NSA in charge of cyber security when they don’t want that responsibility

water treatment systems rely on computerized controls and systems. All of these and many more are pieces of infrastructure that had once been done by hand, but now use computers and technology to operate at the rates vital for our fast moving and massive societies. It can be said with great certainty that the computerized systems behind many of our societies support structures have intrinsically become what we define with the title of “critical infrastructure.” The problem with the otherwise efficient