GUYZ AFTER A LONG TIME I M BACK WITH THE NEW ARTICLE.
MY ONLY AIM IS TO SHOW THE DARK SIDE OF WEB ATTACKS. IN THIS PERSPECTIVE I BOUGHT THE NEW ATTACK “SALAMI ATTACK”
Salami slicing refers to a series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once. The term is typically used pejoratively. Although salami slicing is often used to carry out illegal activities, it is only a strategy for gaining an advantage over time by accumulating it in small increments, so it can be used in perfectly legal ways as well.
An example of salami slicing, also known as penny shaving, is the fraudulent practice of stealing money repeatedly in extremely small quantities, usually by taking advantage of rounding to the nearest cent (or other monetary unit) in financial transactions. It would be done by always rounding down, and putting the fractions of a cent into another account. The idea is to make the change small enough that any single transaction will go undetected.
In information security, a salami attack is a series of minor attacks that together results in a larger attack. Computers are ideally suited to automating this type of attack.
In politics, the term salami tactics has been used since the 1940s to refer to a divide and conquer process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition.
In academia, salami slicing refers to the practice of creating several short publications out of material that could have, perhaps more validly, been published as a single article in a journal or review.
HOW TO AVOID SALAMI ATTACK……………………
A company that protects personal account information of a customer has to be on the lookout for individuals who wish to put them in a compromising situation when it comes to another’s funds. Raj B Lonsane states that it is important to know how to tackle this from an angle that is highly sophisticated.
- a) Banks have to update their security so that the attacker doesn’t familiarize himself/herself with the way the framework is designed, before finally hacking into it states Raj B Lonsane.
- b) Raj B Lonsane adds that banks should advise customers on reporting any kind of money deduction that they aren’t aware that they were a part of. Whether a small or big amount, banks should encourage customers to come forward and openly tell them that this could mean that an act of fraud could very well be the scenario.
- c) Most Important according to Raj B Lonsane is that Customers should ideally not store information online when it comes to bank details, but of course they can’t help the fact that banks rely on a network that has all customers hooked onto a common platform of transactions that require a database. The safe thing to do is to make sure the bank/website is highly trusted and hasn’t been a part of a slanderous past that involved fraud in any way.
A salami attack can seem innocent at first, especially if people do not keep track of their finances when it exits their accounts. A lot of people aren’t aware of how money comes and goes, with attackers taking the advantage for such indifference on the part of customers. In the world of cyber criminals, these acts are a way at the end of it all, to seize funds as a way of going against the company for personal reasons, or for no reason at all.
Raj B Lonsane states that a common case of a salami attack is what is called the ‘collect the roundoff’ technique, where a programmer tweaks the arithmetic code sequence, where the calculation exceeds the customary two/three that is meant for financial record keeping. It is like when the currency is in dollars, the roundoff is made to the nearest penny half the time, where it can be lesser the other times. If these fractions are collected, they can then amount to quite a sum of money that financial companies will not take notice of. Another major cause found a programmer cutting off 20 to 30 cents per account two or three times a year, where it went unnoticed by account holders who didn’t pay much attention to small amount deducted.
Salami attacking is a security issue that many places have had to deal with given the malicious intent of those who break through the security that these financial institutions have on their databases. Raj B Lonsane states that Cyber crime amounts to devastating and overseen attacks that plague the world we live in. Security officials are battling it out on the Internet every day to keep the attacks under control, without breaching it on a national or worldwide scale.
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