IT Security/Threats/Attacks

This lesson covers attacks.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the attacks portion of Security+ certification include:

Summarize various types of attacks.

• Man-in-the-middle
• DDoS
• DoS
• Replay
• Smurf attack
• Spoofing
• Spam
• Phishing
• Spim
• Vishing
• Spear phishing
• Xmas attack
• Pharming
• Privilege escalation
• Malicious insider threat
• DNS poisoning and ARP poisoning
• Transitive access
• Client-side attacks
• Password attacks
  • Brute force
  • Dictionary attacks
  • Hybrid
  • Birthday attacks
  • Rainbow tables
• Typo squatting/URL hijacking
• Watering hole attack

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
2. YouTube: Denial of Service - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
3. YouTube: Replay Attacks - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
4. YouTube: Spoofing - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
5. YouTube: Spam - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
6. YouTube: Phishing - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
7. YouTube: Vishing - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
8. YouTube: Christmas Tree Attack - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
9. YouTube: Privilege Escalation - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
10. YouTube: Insider Threats - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
11. YouTube: Transitive and Client-side Attacks - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
12. YouTube: Password Attacks - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
13. YouTube: URL Hijacking - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2
14. YouTube: Watering Hole Attack - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.2