Describe three of the following attack types in the Operation Security.docx
- 1. Describe three of the following attack types in the Operation Security domain: man-in-the- middle, mail bombing, war-dialing, ping-of-death, teardrop, and slamming-and-cramming Solution The description of the attack types in the operation security domain is given below: 1) man-in-the-middle: In this type of attack, the intruder insert himself or insert any malicious code between the secure communication of two parties. This malicious code act as an third party, and its get the secure information that is being transfer between the two parties. Its third person or the intruder having access to the information send by both the parties involve in the communication. 2) mail bombing : Its refer to attack in which intruder try to send bulk of mails to the person's system, which may cause to disk full on persons system or even can crash the server, which is handling the mails. In this type of attack, the main aim is to crash the user's machine by fulling the disk space or can crash or stop the mail server. 3) War dialing: In this type of attack, hacker's uses the modem's to dial the range of numbers, for finding the computer machiner, servers and other devices. and after dialing they also get access to these type of devices. 4) Ping to death : Its a type of attack, in which the hacker send the incorrect ping packet to the user. There are various computer system which are designed not to handle the incorrect ping packets. Which results into system crash or system going into the abnormal state. 5) teardrop: Its a type of attack, in which the hacker sends the packets in incorrect way or in the fragmented way, that the end user is not able to reassemble these packets at their end, and results into the system crash and denial of service at user's end. 6)slamming-and-cramming: slamming refers to the activity in which hacker, switches the long distance calll carrier at user's phone, without its permission, its results into heavy bill at customer end. Cramming refers to the attack in which some extra bill is added into user's actual phone bill, and its keep on happening again and again