Essays on Attack

On September 11th, 2011, United States was attacked by Al Qaida terrorists where over 3000 people lost their lives with several others sustaining severe injuries. The attack involved four passenger planes. Led by Osama Bin Laden, the Al Qaida terrorists attacked the four planes and...

In part one of this series, we discussed exactly what ransomware is, including the effects of and motives behind different types of attacks. In this second article, I’ll look at the top seven ransomware attacks within the past decade and how they managed to infiltrate...

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an intrusive attempt, which aims to force a designated resource (e.g., network bandwidth, processor time or memory) to be unavailable to its intended users. This attack is launched either by deliberately exploiting system vulnerabilities of a victim (e.g., a host,...

World War 1 was a deadly, and devastating event that occured in 1914-1918. However, how did such a horrible war even begin? There are many factors that lead to The Great War, but nationalism is the main cause of them all. Nationalism is an extreme...

The TCP/IP protocol suits are vulnerable to variety of attacks ranging from password sniffing to denial of service. I am going to focus on two attacks DOS (Denial of Service) and IP spoofing. Denial of Service (Dos): Denial of Service implies that an attacker (Hacker)...

A cyber attack is an attack initiated from a computer against a website, computer system or individual computer that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the computer or information stored on it. Cyber attacks take many forms, including: Gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorized...

Possibility of another gas attack on the NYC’s Subway System Abstract This paper explores different published articles that report on the events and the results of the sarin gas attack that happened in Japan in the year 1995 and its influence or relationship on whether...

Introduction In relation with the Homicidal incidents United States of America stands as one among top ten countries in world ranking. In the National Survey it was documented that around 10,000 members were murdered by the Firearm and another 40,000 members were disabled annually. Generally...

DoS assaults have turned out to be progressively famous, as they have turned out to be greatly simple to dispatch. Individuals with just a direct level of specialized aptitude can rapidly utilize an overwhelming assault against a person’s webWebsite or a whole company’s. The final...

Out of all the battles America has faced, none have been as life-changing as 9/11. September 9, 2001, was a day that no one will ever forget. On that day, America encountered a personal attack against us at the hands of a terrorist nation. Many...

Without security measures and protocols that have been set in place, certain data can be exposed to attack. Certain attacks are “passive”, which translates to the data being observed; other attacks can be active, implying that the data is changed with the intention of corrupting...

A billion hearts broke on 26 November 2011. The day remembered as 26/11 was a bloody Wednesday that no Indian can ever forget. The Islamic terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out massive shootouts and bombings on prime locations in the city of Mumbai- The Taj Hotel,...

Types of attack: Classes of attack might include passive monitoring of communications, active network attacks, close-in attacks, exploitation by insiders, and attacks through the service provider. Information systems and networks offer attractive targets and should be resistant to attack from the full range of threat...

At the point when a high request blast is started, an extremely fast exothermic substance response happens. As the response advances, the strong or fluid dangerous material is changed over to exceptionally hot, thick, high-weight gas. The blast items at first grow at high speeds...

Soldiers in World War I experienced horrible living conditions, vicious forms of punishments, and endured weaponry the world had not seen. Trench warfare dominated World War I, the form of combat in which groups of soldiers would build underground structures stretching long distances to defend...

Sybil attack is one in which a malicious node on a network illegitimately claims to be several different nodes simultaneously. A Sybil attacker can either create more than one identity on a single physical device in order to launch a coordinated attack on the network...

In the following paper, four significant terrorist attacks will be critically researched and explored. The four terrorist attacks that will be mentioned are the hijacking of a Southern Airways flight, the Octoberfest bombing, the 9/11 terrorist attack and the shooting of Aaron Driver. This paper...

The Easter bombings have left Sri Lanka in a dire state. As is the case with most terror attacks that have occurred in the past, a crisis event of this nature can leave a state with numerous political and economic implications. The central thesis of...

The thesis of this essay is a discussion about the use of waterboarding by the US government, during the Bush administration, and if this was an acceptable method of interrogation. After September 11, 2001, the US government relied on qualified army instructors for information on...