When dealing with computerized information, a breach of possession will result in a breach of confidentiality. Indirect attacks originate from a compromised system or resource that is malfunctioning or working under the control of a threat.

Information Security Policies. Written instructions provided by management that inform employees and others in the workplace about proper behavior regarding the use of information and information assets.

Why is this important? During the implementation phase, the team must create a plan to distribute and verify the distribution of the policies. Members of the organization must explicitly acknowledge that they have received and read the policy.

An evil twin attack involves an attacker setting up a fraudulent wireless access point – also known as an evil twin – that mimics the characteristics (including the SSID) of a legitimate AP. Attackers can expedite this process by affecting the connection to the legitimate AP their device is mimicking.

The evil twin is the wireless LAN equivalent of the phishing scam. This type of attack may be used to steal the passwords of unsuspecting users, either by monitoring their connections or by phishing, which involves setting up a fraudulent web site and luring people there.

The main types of passive attacks are traffic analysis and release of message contents. During a traffic analysis attack, the eavesdropper analyzes the traffic, determines the location, identifies communicating hosts and observes the frequency and length of exchanged messages.

Active and Passive Attacks are security attacks. In Active attack, an attacker tries to modify the content of the messages. Whereas in Passive attack, an attacker observes the messages, copy them and may use them for malicious purposes. In Passive Attack, information remain unchanged.

A passive attack is a network attack in which a system is monitored and sometimes scanned for open ports and vulnerabilities. The purpose is solely to gain information about the target and no data is changed on the target. Passive attacks include active reconnaissance and passive reconnaissance.

In a passive attack, an intruder monitors a system and network communications and scans for open ports and other vulnerabilities. An example is when an intruder records network traffic using a packet analyzer tool, such as Wireshark, for later analysis.

Examples of passive online attacks include wire sniffing, Man in the middle attack and reply attack.

Passive: In Passive session hijacking attack, the attacker monitors the traffic between the workstation and server. The primary motivation for the passive attack is to monitor network traffic and potentially discover valuable data or passwords.

The two main types of session hijacking are Application Layer Hijacking and Transport Layer Hijacking. Each type includes numerous attack types that enable a hacker to hijack a user’s session.

A type of session hijacking in which the cybercriminal does not see the target host’s response to the transmitted requests. Nevertheless, blind hijacking can be used, for instance, to send a command to change/reset a password.