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Other common attacks

Other common attacks

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Other common attacks

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(ethereal music) - [Instructor] In this video, we want to consider a few other types of network attacks. One common type of network attack that often gets overlooked is an insider threat. Oftentimes, large efforts are made to protect our network from somebody on the outside, but we may have an employee that's disgruntled and they do something bad to our system. So we need to make sure that employees don't have more access than they need to have, and we need some sort of an audit trail to see what they did when they logged on. An employee that might be a programmer, they might build what's called a logic bomb. This is a piece of code that's just running somewhere in the background, and it might be checking the corporate database for employees. And if one day that programmer's name disappears from the employee database, the conclusion is they may have been fired or they're going to get back at the company by doing something bad to a system or to a network. It might delete a database…

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