Computer networking and sociotechnical threats

  • Authors:

  • Vladimir Sobeslav

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of information technologies, Faculty of informatics, University Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ICANCM'11/ICDCC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on applied, numerical and computational mathematics, and Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computers, digital communications and computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Digital communication technologies create the fundament of modern information technologies. The development of security application and system made more difficult to penetrate the information systems and computers. Social engineering opens the new possibilities for attacker trough vulnerabilities of human interaction in cyberspace. The aim of this paper is to analyse sociotechnical attacks from the perspective of computer networking. This paper is divided into two main parts. First part is focused on principles and categorization of sociotechnical attacks. Second part analyses the vector techniques in traditional computer network and we present penetration testing as a possible solution methods.