Internet Pain

I had an IT class in Iran which was Internet Security. I was training a great book titled as "Hacker Exposed" and students were so happy with it. I suggest you to take a look at it.
In a country like Iran that we are using the Internet just for fun of it, security is not an issue. But for those that they are experiencing web-based life style, security is an important issue.

Network engineers have defined the following types of Internet Attacks:

• Social engineering
– Fooling the victim for fun and profit

• Impersonation
– Stealing access rights of authorized users

• Exploits
– Exploiting a hole in software or operating

• Transitive trust
– Exploiting host-host or network-network trust

• Data driven
– Trojans, trapdoors, viruses

• Infrastructure
– Taking advantage of protocol or infrastructure features or bugs

• Denial of service
– Preventing system from being used


I will do my best to dedicate one session to each title and clarify the exact meaning of each of them.