Investigate the history of malware

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ITECH1102 Networking and Security - Federation University

Week 10 lab sheet: Security 1.

Major goals of this lab sheet:
• Rate the impact of Malware from 1949 - 2013.
• Rate your current vigilance with regard to cyber safety.
• Investigate Botnets
• Investigate the WannaCry worm.

Part 1 - Investigate the history of Malware.

The Sophos Threatsaurus (pages 92 - 98) contains a section titled Malware timeline.

• Your task is to rate the malware contained in these 7 pages by their impact on the users.
• You are required to produce a top 5 list according to impact and a bottom 5 list according to impact.
• Each entry must include the year and name of the Malware and a short summary of the effects of the Malware.

Part 2 - Cyber safety.

• The Sophos Threatsaurus (pages 74 - 90) contains a section titled Safety Tips.

• Create a half page document that summarises ways to stay safe on the Internet.

• At the end of the document rate your own performance (out of 10) as regards to your personal vigilance in Cyber Safety.

Part 3 - Botnets.

• Botnets can be particularly disruptive technologies.

• Using the Internet as a resource write a half page description (in point form if you like) describing key points relating to Botnets. Your discussion can be of a technical nature, points of general interest or both

Part 4 - WannaCry. (Optional task)

• On 12th May 2017 the WannaCry Ransomware worm infected over 200,000 computers worldwide. It seems to have hit the UK health service with particular vigour. It has also impacted Windows operating systems in 150 countries worldwide.

• A Cyber security researcher who was statically analysing the Malware code was able to find a URL within the code.

• The researcher registered the URL as a real domain and this had the effect of telling the Malcode to disable itself.

• Determine what you can about the WannaCry worm and include your discussion with that of parts 1-3 of this lab.

Attachment:- Lab Sheet – Security.rar

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