• New phishing attacks: the current phishing attacks have not only limited to the decoy e-mail and network connections, but through attacks on DNS servers, so users of the site visit to normal automatic shift to phishing sites. At the same time, the new smart-oriented virus also beginning to emerge, even if the user in the browser entered the correct address of the bank site, the software can also address this lure directed to the site, as long as users try logging on to banking sites, The software will be the browser’s address can be directed to any one of the fake site, so many users unknowingly been stealing the account numbers and passwords. During the Olympic Games, due to the visiting tourists, a large number of transactions, transfers, shopping can be conducted through the Internet, phishing during this period is very likely to stir up trouble and to the banks, trading site, users are brought about enormous losses.
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According to Chen Yuqi analysis, during the various Olympic sites facing the main form of attack comes from the following:
• virus attack: the virus attack is the most long last, the most widely spread scope of the attack, the Olympic period, in the form of the virus attack is also more diverse. Hackers may take the forms, including: instant messaging bulk Olympic-related information, to induce users to click on links or virus infected document by sending a theme or content of the Olympic Games-related information and e-mail and e-mail attachments in the annex to the virus In the forum or paste it released the virus Olympic competition at the scene pictures or video link, the lure users to click on; attacks on the dissemination of news related to the Olympic site, linked to the relevant page-transmitted virus.
Chen Yuqi, said: “These attacks against all Olympic-related information release, video broadcast, trade, exchange and other sites to launch attacks by launching an attack to obtain illegal profits, to achieve specific political, damage or vanity to meet such purposes.”
• denial of service attacks (DOS / DDOS attacks): denial of service attack is led to the crash site the most common type. Under normal circumstances, such attacks often occur in high visibility, the greater the number of active users of the site, during the Olympic Games, all kinds of live video, broadcast site, involving tickets, aviation, tourism and other business transactions, information exchange site May have suffered such attacks. Hackers use Trinoo, TFN, TFN2K, Stacheldraht, and other procedures to launch DDOS attacks on specific sites of the invasion and attack the installation procedures, resulting in network traffic to increase rapidly in a short period of time, more than the normal limit, thus allowing the system to collapse, the normal Use can not be carried out.
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