Written by 2.5.2 Entity authentication Entity authentication is the ability to assure one communicating party – using corroborative evidence – of both the identity of a second communicating party involved, and that the second party was actually active at the time the evidence was created or acquired [117]. This authentication type is also referred to as identification. […]
1.5 Example attacks The combination of these two trends – increase in complexity and increase in connectivity – results in an attack surface explosion. The following examples shall serve to illustrate this point. 1.5.1 The Mirai botnet In late 2016, the internet was hit by a series of massive Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks originating from […]