04 - Network Threats

Businesses, government entities, and individuals alike all have to 
pay careful attention to dangers to their computers and networks.

____________ ________________ threats are a growing problem for 
people and organizations the world over, and they only become worse
and multiply with every passing day.

_________________ attacks are famed for taking advantage of already
existent vulnerabilities and bugs in programs with the stated intention
of causing a system to crash. 

There are cyber criminals who exploit
this attack with the intention of willfully gaining illegal access to 
the system, or alternatively of downgrading the performance of a
given network.

A second example of a ____________ attack / threat to network 
security concerns the notorious ping of death. 

In this vile attack, the perpetrator dispatches ICMP packets off to 
a system which will be greater in size than the maximum allowed capacity.

 Such assaults are primarily meant to overwhelm important system
 resources, like R ____________ and C___________resources. 
 This is principally accomplished via dispatching numerous 
 forged requests or IP packets to the network in question.

The vile cyber-criminal is capable of launching a greater and more 
potent assault in compromising the integrity of a multitude
of hosts and then installing malicious forms of software. 

This type of exploit typically results in what is well-known as a 
botnet or a ______. 

Once the botnet attack has been successful, the assailant is then 
capable of launching off additional later assaults from 
literally thousands of these ________ infected machines, 
all with the end goal of compromising
a single target victim

There are at least seven types of network attacks.
1. Spoofing.
2. Sniffing.
3. Mapping.
4. Hijacking.
5. Trojans.
6. DoS and DDoS.
7. Social engineering.