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Question 1

What type of incident happened in april 1998?

Answer 1

“Masters of downloading 2016216” broke into one of the key computer of the department of defense.
They told that the information would be of interest to the international terrorists.
department of defense acknowledged that there was an intrusion but never commented on the hackers claim.

Question 2

What type of incident happened in January 2000?

Answer 2

Hackers over the internet broke into the files of the CD universe.
Stole more than 25,000 credit card number and the names associated with it.
Tried to blackmail the company by threatening to publish the numbers.
The company denied, some of the names and numbers were published. thousands of credit cards had to be changed.
The sales went dramatically down

Question 3

What type of incident happened in february of 2000?

Answer 3

Yahoo, Amazon, cnn.com, e-trade, ebay were denied service by ddos attack.
the targeted websites were overloaded with traffic.
estimated explicit damange : millions in revenues
estimated implicit damage : incalculable.

Question 4

What type of attack happened in July?

Answer 4

Code red. Infected >250,000 windows host in less than 9 hours and used the infected host to carry out a DDOS. Initially attacked the white house web server.
Machines of us government, fedex, att were affected for several weeks
microsoft had issued a patch and cost of this is billions of dollars.

Question 5

What type of attack happened in September 2001?

Answer 5

nimba. Infected 100,000 hosts. it attacked both client and servers of all windows os.
cost of recovering is 1.5 billion dollars..

Question 6

What type of attack happened in January of 2003?

Answer 6

SQL : self - propagating worm
exploits two of the three vulnerabilities of the resolution service of microsoft’s SQL server 2000.
caused internet degradation worldwide.
compromised vulnerable hosts.

Question 7

stuxnet

Answer 7

targeted siemens winCC industrial control softwares running on windows os.
first known malware that spied on and harmed the industrial systems.
had pla rootkit
expolited several vulnerabilities
windows shortcut icon
special rpc that causes buffer overflow