COMP3500 Assignment 1 Solved

As a general guide, answers for each question may be around half page for 2 marks question, 1 page for 4 marks question and one and half page for 6 marks question.

Note: It is a good practise to clearly state if you are making any assumptions before answering each question. It is also important to give reasoning to justify your answers.

1. [6 marks] Discuss any three reasons for increasing trend of cyber security attacks in the current Internet.
2. [6 marks] Briefly describe the Cigital risk management framework.
3. [6 marks] What approach would you recommend for applying Cigital risk management for an online healthcare company which is using password-based authentication for the staff and patients for accessing the healthcare services.
4. [6 marks] Explain cross site scripting attacks, time of check and time of use race condition attacks and compare between these attacks.
5. [8 marks] Ransomware
   1. [2 marks] Explain WanaCry ransomware.
   2. [2 marks] What was the impact of the attack.
   3. [2 marks] Are there any lessons to be learned from this attack?
   4. [2 marks] Discuss if have you noticed any changes in the recent ransomware attack

      behaviour compared to WanaCry.