Crash-Restart A variation of attack techniques is crash-restart. An attacker loads malicious software onto a computer or reconfigures security settings to the attacker’s advantage. Then the attacker crashes the system, allowing the computer to automatically restart (reboot). The attacker can take control of the system after it restarts with the new configuration. The purpose is [...]
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Computer Attacks: Active Attacks (2)
February 4th, 2011 
sahlan 
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February 4th, 2011 sahlan Passive attacks tend to be relatively invisible, whereas active attacks are easier to detect. The attacker will proceed to execute an active attack after obtaining sufficient background information. The active attack is designed to execute an act of theft or to cause a disruption in normal computer processing. Following is a list of active attacks: