You Have Just Been Hired as an Assistant to the Network

question 37

Essay

You have just been hired as an assistant to the network administrator at a local company. You are asked to give a presentation on viruses, worms, bots, Trojans, and spyware and include the unauthorized activities the network might see if malware enters the company's network. The servers on the network are flooded with useless traffic. The servers' processing capabilities are overwhelmed, and all communications have been stopped. What is probably happening?

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Definitions:

Network Address Translation

A technology used in networking that modifies network address information in IP packet headers while in transit, enabling the remapping of one IP address space into another.

Packet Sniffer

A tool or software used to monitor and capture data packets as they traverse a network.

Firewall

A network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.

Zombie

In computing, a computer connected to the internet that has been compromised by a hacker, virus, or trojan and can be used to perform malicious tasks under remote direction.