CIS 333 Week 4 Assignment 1 Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks complete solution

Day by day threats to a company’s intellectual property have grown to an alarming rate over the years. After looking at your network security, structure there are three specific threats that we will focus on that could have a Hugh impact on your business intellectual property and integrity. A well train hacker understands that every device or network has it weakness and they are trying to take advantage of it, the device that is most looked at are: servers, switches, routers, desktops, and security devices themselves. The first treat that can we should take about are Trojan Horse Viruses, how this malware works it hacker form the outside may send emails to work making it look like a work related email. Once it is installed it will make the user think that it is performing that task that it was meant to do. But on the backend this attack is give the hacker the ability to remote into your network granting the attacker user privileges on the computer or computers that give them access to or cause: Wasting of computer storage and memory resources • Causing the computer to crash • Viewing the screen of the user • Wasting of computer storage and memory resources • Deletion or modification of files • Keystroke logging • Software installation, such as additional malware • Uploading or downloading of files • Stealing of data, such as credit card data or passwords The second exploit we need to address are Logic Attacks. If your company is running Windows 2000 operating system, this form of attack gains access to your network without having a valid account. It take advantage of known bugs in programs to gain access to your system,...

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