Network Security !!!

At a time when Iran safely highjack a UAV, and China was accused on attacks for pentagon website, I was invited to do a presentation to the EDEXL – HNDE final year students. They were so curious to know what the attacks are ?, and how complex these attacks are?. Once been a security sustain engineer for Microsoft's R&D, it was a loving feel to share my experience with them. Many believe that different kind of those painful hacker attacks are based on some super brains and super technologies. But I believe it is not. Many attacks we faced today are just careful thoughts and skilled Phishing – I suggested.

My teaching approach was to develop an attack tree with the students. First we attack a single computer, then a point to point network of 2 machines - finally internet...