What information was taken from Yahoo?
Task 1 Attack analysis
Answer the following questions in a report.
What information was taken from Yahoo? [2 marks]
What went wrong and why? [4 marks] Indicate vulnerabilities that were exploited, apply any relevant models
What can or has been done with the information released? [8 marks]
How have they recovered from the attack and how have others responded?[4 marks]
In your opinion should they have done anything differently? [6 marks]
Discuss any drawbacks of their response and your suggestions. [6 marks]
Making a sound argument, critical analysis, including introduction of the problem at hand, discussion, conclusions, references, etc [20 marks]
Task 2 Protecting yourself against cryptojacking
“Mining” for cryptocurrencies requires a lot of computing power, so malware criminals have taken up “cryptojacking”, installing code on victims’ machines or websites that helps the criminals with mining. Analyse the risk of cryptojacking malware infection and the best way of protecting an organisation like De Montfort University from it.
This involves answering the following questions, using any frameworks and methods covered in the module or others:
What assets are potentially affected by cryptojacking and thus need to be protected? [4 marks]
What would the impact of a successful attack on these assets be? [4 marks]
Through which routes might cryptojacking malware come into your system?
[6 marks]
What measures would you put in place to prevent cryptojacking attacks within your organisation?
[8 marks]
What measures would you put in place to detect a possible cryptojacking malware infection? [4 marks]
What measures would you put in place to minimise the effect of a possible cryptojacking malware infection? [4 marks]
Making a sound argument, critical analysis, including introduction of the problem at hand, discussion, conclusions, references, etc [20 marks]
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