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Network Security attacks - Coggle Diagram
Network Security attacks
General classification
Criminal attacks
Attempt to maximize financial gains by attacking a system
Publicity attakcs
Attempts to gain publicity by attacking a system
Legal attacks
Convince a jury about inherent weakness of system
Practical side of attacks
Application level attakcs
Attempts to access, modify or prevent access of information of an application
Network level attacks
Reducing capabilities of network
Programs that attack
Virus
Program attached to legitimate program to cause damage
Worms
Replicates itself to slow down a system
Trojan horse
Attempts to access confidential information
Ransomware
Locking a user's data until he pays a ransom to the attacker
Types
Active
Masquerade
Pretending to be some other entity
Denial Of Service
Prevent legitimate users from accessing a service
Modification
changing values in a database
Passive
Release of message contents
Traffic analysis