The first
thing that comes to mind when I hear the words network attacks is viruses and Trojans.
Although that is partly true, there is so much more to networking attacks than
just virus attacks. Due to the ever growing world of IT, there are more ways that
our network can be attacked. People who want to cause trouble are finding new
ways to do so. After doing my research, I have successfully found out there are
four primary types of attacks. They include Reconnaissance, Access, Denial of
Service and last but not least the threat of Worms, Viruses and Trojan Horses.
Firstly, reconnaissance attacks are basically a kind of information on network
systems. By doing this, they discover weaknesses of network. Secondly, network
access attacks is hacking and getting access to a web account or sensitive
information. Whether it is password attack, trust exploitation or port
redirection, there will always be a way to hack. Thirdly, DOS attacks prevent
the usage of services by simply consuming system resources. This attack should
get special attention because it is easy to execute and hard to eliminate.
Examples of DOS include ping of death and SYS flood. Lastly there is Worms and
Trojans. A worm executes code and makes copies of itself on the infected
computer and may infect other host on network. A Trojan on the other hand is a
program or software that has a hidden purpose. It looks like something else but
does a whole other thing that it is not meant to do.
There are
solutions to almost every problem including the ones stated above. For the
issue of password attacks, users can be educated to use complex password and
restricting the number of failed login attempts. For DOS attacks, it can be
avoided by using special anti-DOS Access Control Lists. For worms, there are different
ways to handle the problem. One ways is to contain the spread of worms while
another is to scan for vulnerable systems. And finally, for the issue of
Trojans, most anti-virus software can detect
viruses and Trojans.
Hi Ameer,
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Jun Hao
Hello Ameer!
ReplyDeleteI have read both your posts and I would like to comment: Good job!
You have provided me with a number of common networking attacks threats examples and details:) and thank you coz I have learnt something new from reading your posts:) I feel that your posts are very easy to understand as it is written in simple English:)
However, you can improve by the format of your post in Common networking attacks threats and solution. I find that it is quite difficult to read as all the information are in one chunk of paragraph. Thus, I would like to suggest to you that you could have one threat+solution in one paragraph. It is easier to read that way:)
Once again,Keep it up!Your blog is very informative:)