Disruptive Cyberattacks

1. Saudi Aramco

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/business/global/cyberattack-on-saudi-oil-firm-disquiets-us.html?_r=1 (Links to an external site.)

2. Leavenworth Hospital

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/wash-hospital-hit-by-1-03-million-cyberheist/ (Links to an external site.)

3. Operation Buckshot Yankee

(this story is mentioned on page 64 in the textbook)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/technology/26cyber.html?_r=1&ref=technology (Links to an external site.)

4. Bowman Dam

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/iran-us-dam-cyber-attack/index.html (Links to an external site.)

5. Sands Casino

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-11/nuke-remark-stirred-hack-on-sands-casinos-that-foreshadowed-sony (Links to an external site.)

contains a list of cyberattacks with the title “Cyberattack Reference List”.

Your assignment is to pick six attacks from that list which are disruptive cyberattacks, and for each of the six, answer the following four questions:

• What company, government, organization (or group of them) was the target of the attack?
• Who was the attacker? If it's not know for certain, what is suspected and why?
• How did the attacker disrupt the target? (for instance, was it a DDOS attack, did they destroy files, etc.)
• What was the apparent motivation of the attacker?

Remember that this list was used for the List assignment in Module 1. You may want to look there to begin to narrow down the list to disruptive cyberattacks. But don't just copy what you see there, it's not all correct.

Do not choose HBGary Federal, Target, or Stuxnet, we've already covered those.

Like most written assignments, this must be submitted as a PDF file.