Week 1 Assignment
American Military University
1. Discuss common forms of attack on Microsoft systems using the text Internet, and/or your job as reference for full credit.
As our society realize more and more on technology like computers and smart phones to conduct every day things such as banking, work, school, and staying connected with family and friends, our personal information has become more vulnerable to attack. Before computers, if someone wants to steal your personal information they would need to break in to your house, work and car to try and get your information. Now everything about us are stored right on our computers from banking information, to medical information. Some of the most common forms of attack on Microsoft system are Trojan horse, backdoor, denial of service, robot/intermediary process, unprotected …show more content…
Denial of services is an attack on networks that are intended at making computer or particular service on a computer unavailable.
Robot/intermediary process is a form of attack that is lunched on one computer but attacks another computer.
Unprotected Windows Share is an easy method of allowing remote access or sharing to computers. This type of attack is commonly used with shared folder and printers.
Mobile code refers to interpreted or executable content that can be downloaded and run on a user’s computer. This type of attack offers the user visiting the site a method that’s provide a rich and dynamic content to users.
Cross-site scripting is a type of computer security exposure found in web function such as XSS which attacker attach to the client side of a script.
Packet sniffing is a type of attack in which the attacker uses the collection of network messages as it is traveling from the user to the server in order to divulge