psy290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bot Herder, Botnet, Financial Statement
22 Jul 2018
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Rationalization triangle sub-element - attitude, justification, lack of personal. The pressure element can be decomposed into two sub-elements: Financial statement pressure triangle - financial, industry conditions, Management characteristics: describe a denial-of-service attack (dos). A denial-of-service attack occurs when a particular website is overloaded with illegitimate requests so that legitimate requests from users and customers are crowded out. The illegitimate requests originate from a network of hijacked computers called a botnet that is controlled by a bot herder. The bot herder take control of the hijacked computers by installing software that responds to the bot herder"s command. The bot software is delivered in a number of ways including. Trap doors are a way into a system that bypasses normal system controls. They are legitimately used by programmers during systems development but are normally removed before the program is put into operation.
