Essays on Attack

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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 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...

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,...