Availability Flashcards
Availability
Measured by nines of availability
Logic Bomb
Malicious code triggered by an action or timer
Rogue Access Point
Unauthorized AP that prevents legitimate network access
Evil Twin
Type of rogue access point that captures authentication information
War Driving
Surveillance of an area for open / easily compromised Wi-Fi networks
Deauthentication
Attacker sends deauthentication frame to victim to disconnect them from WLAN
DoS
Denial of Service
Target sent a flood of data requests the consume target’s resources
Reflective DoS
Third-party system used to carry out attack
Amplified DoS
Legitimate servers tricked into flooding responses at target system.
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
Coordinated attack that increases the amount of traffic to a system
TCP SYN Flood
Type of DoS
Attacker initiates multiple TCP session with SYN segments but does not complete three-way TCP handshake
Buffer Overflow
Buffer spills over and overruns memory
ICMP Attack
Target overwhelmed with pings
Ping of death - packets too big
Series of fragments overwhelm reassembly buffer
Smurf attack - Flood target with ping replies
Electrical Disturbances
Physical level attack
Power spike, electrical surge, power fault, blackout, power sag, brownout
Physical Environment Attack
Temperature, humidity, gas
