INFO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Advance-Fee Scam, Packet Analyzer, Rootkit
Document Summary
Common types of cyber crimes: fbi-scams, identity theft, non-auction/non-delivery of merchandise, advance fee fraud. Messaging, malware and mobile anti-abuse working group (m3aawg: found that half of email users have opened spam. Types of hackers: white-hat (security tester, black-hat (scam, theft, grey-hat (hacks to flaunt skill) Trojan horses appear to be useful but are malicious. Legit users are denied access to the computer: system shuts down. Distributed denial of service (ddos: hackers use multiple zombies to attack one victim. Types of viruses: polymorphic- change code to avoid detection, multipartite- infects multiple file types, stealth- temporarily erase their code from they files they reside in and stay in the ram. Malware (malicious intent: adware: displays unwanted advertisements, spyware: an unwanted piggy-back program, transmits info, tracks cookies, keystroke logger, scareware: convinces you that you have a virus so you will pay then download a driver to. Pharming: malicious code planted on your computer to gather information. Popular anti-virus software: symantec, kaspersky, avg, mcafee.
