Network Attacks
Written by Vyga V R Thursday, 18 March 2010 09:11
A network attack or security incident is defined as a threat ,intrusion, denial-of-service, or other attack on a network infrastructure that will analyze your network and gain information to eventually cause your network to crash or to become corrupted. In many cases, the attacker might not only be interested in exploiting software applications, but also try to obtain unauthorized access to network devices. Unmonitored network devices are the main source of information leakage in organizations. In most organizations, every email message, every web page request, every user logon, and every transmittable file is handled by a network device. Under some setups, telephone services and voice messaging are also handled by network devices. If the attacker is able to “own” your network devices, then they “own” your entire network. Network attacks cut across all categories of software and platform type. There are at least seven types of network attacks, spoofing, sniffing, mapping, hijacking, Trojans, Dos and DDoS, social engineering.
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