Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 40 Java-based attacks

From Computer Crimes: Examples of Network Security attacks Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- April 23 99. by Roman Markowski
1 SNARF
  • a classic Trojan Horse login implemented in Java
  • displays window requesting "user id" and "password"
  • obtained info is send to the evil web server
2 Denial of Service applets
  • Noisy Bear, Applet Killer, Blue Screen of Death
  • Resource Consumer
3 Defense
  • encrypt sensitive data
  • know what web sites you are visiting
  • use latest versions of browser ; use latest security patches
  • turn Java off, do not use Java-enabled web browser
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