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The All.Net Security Database


Generated Fri Jun 27 09:58:50 PDT 2003 by fc@red.a.net

Cause/Mechanism:
  • Threat Profiles
  • Attack Methods
  • Defense Methods
    Process:
  • Prevention
  • Detection
  • Reaction
    Impact:
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Confidential
  • Use Control
  • Other:
  • Risk Management
  • Database Description

    Domain:
  • Physical
  • Informational
  • Systemic
    Sophistication:
  • Theoretical
  • Demonstrated
  • Widespread
  • Perspectives:
  • Management
  • Policy
  • Standards
  • Procedures
  • Documentation
  • Audit
  • Testing
  • Technical Safeguards
  • Personnel
  • Incident Handling
  • Legal
  • Physical
  • Awareness
  • Training
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Brekne's Mechanistic:
  • Input
  • Output
  • Storage
  • Processing
  • Transmission
  • Brekne's Causal:
  • Accidental
  • Malicious
  • Brekne's Method:
  • Leakage
  • Masquerade
  • Denial
  • Corruption
  • Usage
  • Mental

  • Attack70:

    Name:hardware failure - system flaw exploitation

    Complexity: Discovering hardware flaws is, in general, similar in complexity to discovering software flaws, which makes this problem at least NP-complete.
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    Related Database Material

    [TBVProcessing - Relates to Processing]
    [TBVMalicious - Relates to Malicious]
    [TBVDenial - Relates to Denial]
    [PDRIntegrity - Relates to Integrity]
    [PDRConfidentiality - Relates to Confidentiality]
    [PDRUse - Relates to Use]
    [PDRTheoretical - Relates to Theoretical]
    [PLSPhysical - Relates to Physical]
    [Threat4 - consultants]
    [Threat6 - customers]
    [Threat10 - hackers]
    [Threat11 - crackers]
    [Threat13 - cyber-gangs]
    [Threat14 - tiger teams]
    [Threat16 - professional thieves]
    [Threat20 - crackers for hire]
    [Threat26 - foreign agents and spies]
    [Threat28 - government agencies]
    [Threat30 - economic rivals]
    [Threat31 - nation states]
    [Threat32 - global coalitions]
    [Threat33 - military organizations]
    [Threat35 - information warriors]
    [Threat36 - extortionists]
    [Defense131 - adversary principle (GASSP)]
    [Defense32 - anomaly detection]
    [Defense35 - awareness of implications]
    [Defense132 - continuity principle (GASSP)]
    [Defense13 - detection before failure]
    [Defense87 - disable unsafe features]
    [Defense21 - fault isolation]
    [Defense138 - filtering devices]
    [Defense14 - human intervention after detection]
    [Defense89 - integrity checking]
    [Defense84 - limited function]
    [Defense59 - lockouts]
    [Defense43 - multi-version programming]
    [Defense22 - out-of-range detection]
    [Defense69 - path diversity]
    [Defense15 - physical security]
    [Defense77 - physical switches or shields on equipment and devices]
    [Defense16 - redundancy]
    [Defense23 - reintegration]
    [Defense4 - sensors]
    [Defense115 - separation of equipment so as to limit damage from local events]
    [Defense103 - standby equipment]
    [Defense117 - suppression of incomplete, erroneous, or obsolete data]
    [Defense128 - timeliness principle (GASSP)]