Cyber Security Fundamentals Notes

Assessment

Quiz best 4 / 5 (10%) Written Assignment (10%) 20th March Exam (80%) April/May

Examples of Cyber Attacks

Network Attacks

Denial of service (Dos)

A service becomes unavailable to its users

DNS attacks

exploits of vulnrabilities in DNS

Software Vulnerabilities

OS command injection
SQL injection
Cross site scripting (XSS)

Malware

Social Engineering

the human factor and one of the most used attacks

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