What are the types of security attack?
There are two types of attack in Network Security :
1- Passive Attack
It's got information from the systems but doesn’t affect
the resources
2- Active Attack
It should affect the systems and its operation
Passive Attack
- Listening to private conversation
- Monitoring transmission of data
- Authorized sender and receiver don’t have any clue about
Unauthorized User should get some info during your
conversation.
Types
1. Release of message
Conversation over Telephone, Mail communication should protect from some unauthorized person.
2. Traffic Analysis
Transmitted data captured from an unauthorized agent but not able to extract information from the captured data because the sending data to be encrypted.
Continued to Active Attack
