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A Survey of Network-Based Security Attacks


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1 Department of Computing and Information Technology The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
 

Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Denial of Service (DOS), Buffer Overflow and Password Cracking are current network-based security attacks that still looms on the Internet. Though these attacks have been around for decades and there exist protective mechanism for overcoming them they are still relevant today. In this paper we describe the basic workings of these attacks and outline how companies and individuals can mitigate these attacks. By taking the necessary precautions the severity of these attacks can be diminished.

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Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Denial of Service (DOS), Buffer Overflow, Password Cracking, Security Attacks, Internet.
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Koffka Khan
Department of Computing and Information Technology The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Wayne Goodridge
Department of Computing and Information Technology The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract


Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Denial of Service (DOS), Buffer Overflow and Password Cracking are current network-based security attacks that still looms on the Internet. Though these attacks have been around for decades and there exist protective mechanism for overcoming them they are still relevant today. In this paper we describe the basic workings of these attacks and outline how companies and individuals can mitigate these attacks. By taking the necessary precautions the severity of these attacks can be diminished.

Keywords


Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Denial of Service (DOS), Buffer Overflow, Password Cracking, Security Attacks, Internet.

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