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Attacks
Some types of Security
attacks are mentioned here.Know these:-
- DoS- Denial of
Service
- Trojan Horse - Comes
with other software.
- Virus - Reproduces
itself by attaching to other executable files.
- Worm -
Self-reproducing program. Creates copies of itself. Worms
that spread using e-mail address books are often called
viruses.
- Logic Bomb - Dormant
until an event triggers it (Date, user action
- IP
spoofing - An attacker may fake their
IP address so the receiver thinks it is sent from
a location that it is not actually from. There are
various forms and results to this attack.The
attack may be directed to a specific computer
addressed as though it is from that same computer.
This may make the computer think that it is
talking to itself. This may cause some operating
systems such as Windows to crash or lock up.
- Gaining access through
source routing. Hackers may be able to break
through other friendly but less secure networks
and get access to your network using this method.
- Session
hijacking - An attacker may watch a
session open on a network. Once authentication is
complete, they may attack the client computer to
disable it, and use IP spoofing to claim to be the
client who was just authenticated and steal the
session. This attack can be prevented if the two
legitimate systems share a secret which is checked
periodically during the session.
- Server
spoofing - A C2MYAZZ utility can be run
on Windows 95 stations to request LANMAN (in the
clear) authentication from the client. The
attacker will run this utility while acting like
the server while the user attempts to login. If
the client is tricked into sending LANMAN
authentication, the attacker can read their
username and password from the network packets
sent.
- DNS
poisoning - This is an attack where DNS
information is falsified. This attack can succeed
under the right conditions, but may not be real
practical as an attack form. The attacker will
send incorrect DNS information which can cause
traffic to be diverted. The DNS information can be
falsified since name servers do not verify the
source of a DNS reply. When a DNS request is sent,
an attacker can send a false DNS reply with
additional bogus information which the requesting
DNS server may cache. This attack can be used to
divert users from a correct webserver such as a
bank and capture information from customers when
they attempt to logon.
- Password
cracking - Used to get the password of
a user or administrator on a network and gain
unauthorized access.
Some
DoS Attacks
- Ping
broadcast - A ping request packet is
sent to a broadcast network address where there
are many hosts. The source address is shown in the
packet to be the IP address of the computer to be
attacked. If the router to the network passes the
ping broadcast, all computers on the network will
respond with a ping reply to the sttacked system.
The attacked system will be flooded with ping
responses which will cause it to be unable to
operate on the network for some time, and may even
cause it to lock up. The attacked computer may be
on someone else's network. One countermeasure to
this attack is to block incoming traffic that is
sent to a broadcast address.
- Ping
of death - An oversized ICMP datagram
can crash IP devices that were made before 1996.
- Smurf
- An attack where a ping request is sent to a
broadcast network address with the sending address
spoofed so many ping replies will come back to the
victim and overload the ability of the victim to
process the replies.
- Teardrop
- a normal packet is sent. A second packet is sent
which has a fragmentation offset claiming to be
inside the first fragment. This second fragment is
too small to even extend outside the first
fragment. This may cause an unexpected error
condition to occur on the victim host which can
cause a buffer overflow and possible system crash
on many operating systems.
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