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chapter 9 is all about software and how it works,
it is also about ip adresses and passwords.
The Importance of Security:
  • Private information, company secrets, finacial data, computer equipment and items of national security are placed at risk if proper security procedures are not followed.
  • A technician’s primary responsibilities include data and network security. 
internal threats – cause a melicious threat or a accidental threat
external threats – ouside users can atatck.
a worm is a self repulactating virus that duplicates itself when it  gets on a network.
a trojan horse is known for its way to get inot the network. it pretends that it is something good and it is reaaly something bad.
security:
computer and network security help to keep data and equipment functioning and provide acsess onley to the right people and who i want to see it, anyone in a large buisness using computers should look into security because its very helpfull.
To successfully protect computers and the networks a techniction must understand all types of threats to computer security.

 
TCP/IP is the protocol suite that is used to control all of the communications on the Internet. Unfortunately, TCP/IP can also make a network vulnerable to attackers.
Some of the most common attacks:
  • SYN Flood – Randomly opens TCP ports, tying up the network equipment or computer with a large amount of false requests, causing sessions to be denied to others
  • DoS – Sends abnormally large amounts of requests to a system preventing access to the services
  • DDoS – Uses "zombies" to make tracing the origin of the DoS attack difficult to locate
  • Spoofing – Gains access to resources on devices by pretending to be a trusted computer
  • Man-in-the-Middle – Intercepts or inserts false information in traffic between two hosts
  • Replay – Uses network sniffers to extract usernames and passwords to be used at a later date to gain access
  • DNS Poisoning – Changes the DNS records on a system to point to false servers where the data is recorded.
this is what i have leart over chapter 9.

   

 

NETWORK CARDS AND MODEMS:

A network interface card (NIC) is required to connect to the Internet. The NIC may come preinstalled or you may have to purchase one on your own. you may need to update the driver. You can use the driver disc that comes with the motherboard or adapter card, or you can supply a driver that you downloaded from the manufacturer.

After the NIC and the driver have been installed, you can connect the computer to the network.

In addition to installing a NIC, you may also need to install a modem to connect to the Internet.

Install or update a NIC driver,

sometimes when you have a driver the softwaregets updated wich means you need to go to the manufacturers website and download it to be able to use the latest data.

Installation of a modem,

 
A modem is an electronic device that transfers data between one computer and another using analog signals over a telephone line.

www.example.co.uk-URL(UniformResourcelocator)

server

company name

organisation name

country

TLD – TOP LEVEL DOMAIN NAME

.COM-company

.ORG- A non profit organisation

.NET- A network site

.MIL- Millatary site

.GOV- Govament site 

.UK- UK based site

.EU- European

.IE- Ireland

.RU- Russia

for example https://email.crime.org.us

this website is a organisation site and in the us

10.0.0.0- class A

172.16.0.0-class B

192.168.1.0-class C

172.16.8.3

255.255.0.0

255= Network 0= random number

subnet mask = 0 or 255 eg 255.255.0.0

numbers can range from 0-255 ONLEY! there are always four numbers

10.0.0.0- class A

172.16.0.0-class B

192.168.1.0-class C

each ip adress is unique on the network ‘families’ of computers share a common network adress e.g adresses would look like 10.25.47.45, 10.25.78.35 10.25.75.34

 



 
Bandwidth: is the amount of  text/data that can be transmitted within a fixed time limit, When data is sent through a computer network, it is broken up into small chunks called packets. A header is information added to each packet that contains the source and destination of the packet. A header also contains information. The size of the bandwidth counts the size of information.

 

  • bps – bits per second
  • kbps – kilobits per second
  • Mbps – megabits per second
  • USE MSN TO TALK TO OTHERS ON WEB CAM OR JUST CHAT THIS IS A WAY OF SAVING CREDIT O NYOUR MOBILE.

    TEACHERS GO ON TV INSTEAD OF PAYING A SUPPLY COVER TEACHER SO YOU ARE SAVING MONEY.

    LAN

    WAN

    WLAN

    PROTOCOL

    TCP

    OSI

    TOPOLOGIES