Network Threats

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Without security and control in network, your data might be subjected to an attack.Some attacks are passive meaning information is monitored ,other are active meaning the information is altered with intent to corrupt or destroy the data.

Examples for active attacks:-   
1.   Identity spoofing
2.   Man in the middle attack
3.   Denial of service


Examples for passive attacks:-

1.   Eavesdropping
2.   Sniffer
3.   DHCP starvation
4.   MAC address flooding





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