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Three Types of Network Attacks to Watch For

posted by martyb on Friday October 04 2019, @04:50AM   
from the the-counting-of-network-attack-types-shall-be-three dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Cybersecurity is becoming more of a common tongue term in today's industry. It is being passed around the executive meetings along with financial information and projected marketing strategies. Here are some common attack vectors plaguing the industry when it comes to network infrastructure. It does not really matter the infrastructure type you have. If there is value to the data you are transferring within, someone wants to get it.

1. Reconnaissance Attacks
2. Access Attacks
3. Denial of Service Attacks

It is a pipe dream to believe a network infrastructure is invulnerable; however, the possibility of being protected is within grasp. Fundamentally, it comes down to knowledge of what can happen to your network, knowing your equipment and training up the staff.

Source: Tripwire.com

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• not just on network (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday October 04 2019, @05:04PM

  by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Friday October 04 2019, @05:04PM (#902691) Journal

  These things happen in real life too, I have seen all and both with my own eyes.

  At alchemy I was noc admin on duty for bill orreilly's homepage, believe me there was ddos and it was great. I still did my job but it was neat to watch the graphs and see his name on the alarm. 'The internet is attacking the worst person in the world, in what way is this broken exactly?' But yeah that goes two ways, I picked up the phone and got v&^%e on the line.

  Also, don't leave centos 5 boxes exposed to the web.

  And for the love of pete sampras make sure the ACL on your edge router limits standard network services to something sane so all of the clocks don't start asking each other what time it is several times a second in your city. Thanks whoever did that, it's a neat story to tell. Who doesn't like going out in the rain to a shack with an autist and saving the city's internet from poor configuration, set in stone years before.

  I am pretty sure ransomware is just that windows is inherently comprimised. You can't send that much phone home traffic and leave the phone off the hook hoping no one sniffing the wire will reverse engineer your clever update/malfunction-pushing scheme. But I have always hated microsoft, or since millenium edition, which is about the same thing at this point.

  (btw can you BELIEVE this is the new millenium still????)

  Question though: if someone steals my mail or remotely destroys my car's computer, is that still a network attack? And if someone uses a transmitting cell phone in your vicinity to record you, is that one too?

  And after how many 'network' attacks should one expect to get punched in the face, or worse?

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