1.4 Cyber Threats

1.4.1 Topic(s)

Adversaries and Targets

Motivations and Techniques

The Adversary Model (resources, capabilities, intent, motivation, risk aversion, access)

Types of Attacks

Password guessing / cracking

Backdoors / Trojans / Viruses / Wireless Attacks

Sniffing / Spoofing / Session Hijacking

Denial of Service / Distributed DOS / BOTs

MAC spoofing / Web App Attacks / 0-Day Exploits

Vulnerabilities that Enable Attacks

Attack Timing (within x minutes of being attached to the net)

Social Engineering

Events that indicate an attack is/has happened

Legal Issues

Attack Surfaces / Vectors

Attack Trees

Insider Problem

Covert Channels

Threat Information Sources (e.g., CERT)

1.4.2 Outcome(s): Students will be able to:

____ Identify the bad actors in cyberspace and compare and contrast their resources, capabilities/techniques, motivations, aversion to risk
____ Describe different types of attacks and their characteristics