AssignmentPick your poison! Write a 550- to 750-word paper describing a situation in which one of the cyber-attacks(below) would cause a serious problem for an organization. Describe the countermeasures for preventing the attack, detecting the attack, or recovering from the attack. This assignment should bethree to fourpages in length (550 words minimum), usingAPA style.
See attack below Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)In a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, the attacker sends a large number of connection or information requests to a target (see Figure XXXXXXXXXXSo many requests are made that the target system becomes overloaded and cannot respond to legitimate requests for service. The system may crash or simply become unable to perform ordinary functions. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is an attack in which a coordinated stream of requests is launched against a target from many locations at the same time. Most DDoS attacks are preceded by a preparation phase in which many systems, perhaps thousands, are compromised. The compromised machines are turned into zombies, machines that are directed remotely (usually by a transmitted command) by the attacker to participate in the attack. DDoS attacks are the most difficult to defend against, and there are presently no controls that any single organization can apply. There are, however, some cooperative efforts to enable DDoS defenses among groups of service providers; among them is the Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.35 To use a popular metaphor, DDoS is considered a weapon of mass destruction on the Internet.36 The MyDoom worm attack of early 2004 was intended to be a DDoS attack against www.sco.com (the Web site of a vendor of a UNIX operating system) that lasted from February 1, 2004 until February 12, 2004. Allegedly, the attack was payback for the SCO Group’s perceived hostility toward the open-source Linux community.37Any system connected to the Internet and providing TCP-based network services (such as a Web server, FTP server, or mail server) is vulnerable to DoS attacks. DoS attacks can also be launched against routers or other network server systems if these hosts enable (or turn on) other TCP services (e.g., echo).
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