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Chapter 11, Problem 16Q

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Different types of attacks:

People who attempt attacks can be classified into four categories are as follows:

  • Snooping
    • It is an unauthorized access to another person’s or company’s private or confidential data.
    • This data could be used for active attacks such as blackmail.
    • It is also known as information gathering of foot printing.
  • Modification
    • In this attack an intruder change packet header addresses to direct a message to a dissimilar destination or change information on a target machine.
  • Masquerade
    • It is a type of attack in communications security issues...

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