July 2009 cyber attacks

CNA’S AMMUNITION There are several different forms of cyber weapons, all of which can be used for either an attack or espionage. There are principally five common practices. The first of three attacks that will be examined is spoofing. SPOOFING Spoofing is an attack that falsifies information in order to disguise and misconstrue an identity to appear as someone else, or as an application. An example, per say, would be an instance that took place in Arizona at the works of Daniel David Rigmaiden

advanced. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been the most damaging according to security specialists. A Denial of Service attack is a way of blocking service from intended users. The severity of this attack varies with the magnitude of the target and the length of the attack. DoS attacks also include Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which do damage on a larger scale. These DDoS attacks consist of many systems that work together to launch a massive attack. Financial services organizations

Want to launch an attack on someone who opposes your beliefs, demands, and anything else that can possibly be a point of conflict? All you have to do is “Google it”. It is possible that all you have to do to learn how to shut down your enemy’s ability to use the internet is an internet search engine search away and a little practice. An individual can learn how to write a virus or launch a full-blown distributed denial of service attack against the desired target with some light reading and little

Cyber Warfare Introduction: Cyber warfare involves the actions by a nation-state or international organization to attack and attempt to damage another nation 's computers or information networks through, for example, computer viruses or denial-of-service attack. The Internet has experienced a magnificent development over the past two decades, from a petite network limited chiefly to the scientific society to a universal network that counts more than two billion users. With development came rising

terror. The danger behind these attacks is Year Zero began with the detection of the Stuxnet malware, allegedly developed by the United States, who partnered with Israel. This malware was released in order to damage Iranian machines and “mess with Iran’s best scientific minds.” Stuxnet proved that the United States was willing to do whatever it took to develop these forms of offensive capabilities which are needed to “dominate the cyber battlespace.” This attack was used to send Iran’s nuclear program

Breaches and Security Implications by Penetration of the Western Interconnection’s Traffic Control System and its Effects on Modern Day Life Year after year, a number of films are released involving computer hacking of some sort along with cyber-villainy. As entertaining as they are, the validity of these possibilities is not explored. Many of these films center revolve around a chaotic vehicle-related scene where a form of the government’s transportation grid is compromised. The breach typically

computers results in the nation being vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper will discuss cyber threats to American security as they pertain to the nation’s government, military, businesses, and infrastructure. Such threats include possible acts of cyber terrorism, as well as espionage and information theft. It will be seen that cyber-attacks could result in physical as well as economic damage to the nation. It will be argued that the threat of cyber-attack is real and that it needs to be taken seriously

In relation to defence spending, it’s visible that there was a positive increase in the year succeeding 2007, directly after the attacks. Though this was dramatically decreased for the following two years, which can be explained by the global economic downturn which begun in 2008 (Grigor′ev & Salikhov, 2009). Therefore it is not possible to conclude that Estonia directly increased spending on defence by a significant figure because of the events that took place in 2007, but it can be deduced that

Success in Cybercrime Cyber crimes refer to crimes committed against computers, computer networks of the information stored in computers (Bronk, 2008). In the past, the main problem that law enforcement officers have faced with regard to cyber crimes has had to do with the jurisdiction. With the prominence of the internet as a means communication and computers are a means of accessing information, cyber crimes have become prevalent. However, given the realisation that cyber crimes can be committed

1 Cyber Warfare Richard A. Clark, an expert in security sector governance in his book Cyber War (May 2010), defines Cyber War as an act of penetration of a country against other computer network with the intent of causing damage and disruption. The Economist magazine explained that cyber war is the fifth domain of warfare, after land, sea, air and space. Cyber warfare, (also known as cyber war and Cyber warfare), is a war with the use of computer networks and the Internet in cyberspace (cyber space)