- Without security, both public and private networks are susceptible to unauthorized monitoring and access.
- Internal attacks might be a result of minimal or nonexistent intranet security.
- Risks from outside the private network originate from connections to the Internet and extranets.
- Password-based user access controls alone do not protect data transmitted across a network.
Common types of network attacks
- Without security measures and controls in place, your data might be subjected to an attack.
- Some attacks are passive in that information is only monitored.
- Other attacks are active and information is altered with intent to corrupt or destroy the data or the network itself.
- networks and data are vulnerable to any of the following types of attacks if you do not have a security plan in place.
-Eavesdropping-
- the majority of network communications occur in a plaintext (unencrypted) format, which allows an attacker who has gained access to data paths in a network to monitor and interpret (read) the traffic.
- When an attacker is eavesdropping on communications, it is referred to as sniffing or snooping.
- The ability of an eavesdropper to monitor the network is generally the biggest security problem that administrators face in an enterprise.
- Without strong encryption services that are based on cryptography, data can be read by others as it traverses the network.
-Data modification-
- After an attacker has read data, the next logical step is often to modify it.
- An attacker can modify the data in the packet without the knowledge of the sender or receiver.
- Even if you do not require confidentiality for all communications, you do not want any of your messages to be modified in transit.
- For example, if you are exchanging purchase requisitions, you do not want the items, amounts, or billing information to be changed.
-Compromised-key attack-
- A key is a secret code or number required to encrypt, decrypt, or validate secured information.
- Although determining a key is a difficult and resource-intensive process for an attacker, it is possible. After an attacker determines a key, that key is referred to as a compromised key.
TYPES OF SOFTWARE ATTACKS
VIRUS
- attach to another program
- replicate and spread itself
- without requiring another computer program
- software program hide in another program
- activate itself when we open the file
We need to have a security in our gadget. So, it will be more safety..There are so many virus create which we do not know about the risks we will face it.For example, data modification.A bad hacker can modified our data without we realised it. We must have security to protect our data from lose.
The most popular virus is trojan. It easy to detect this virus if we always scan our program. We must have an antivirus and always update the software. If we dont, they will replicate and hide in other data.
In conclusion, we have take care of this seriously. It will become more problem if we do not prepare early.That's all from me..bye!!!!hehe
Note:
- Information Systems to Literacy (IL)
- www.softwareattacks.com
