Technology is MMGood

     In today’s age of computers and the prevalence of their use in our daily lives - both personal and professionally - it is more important than ever to make sure we safeguard our data.      In our ping command exercise, we used the requests to test the number of packets sent across a network. “Normally, ping requests are used to test the connectivity of two computers by measuring the round-trip time from when an ICMP echo request is sent to when an ICMP echo reply is received.” (imperva, n.d., n.p.) Ping commands can also be used to launch a Denial of Service attack by overloading the target network with request packets, which consumes bandwidth and slows the target network considerably.      To launch the attack, the attacker needs to know the target’s IP address and needs to have access to more bandwidth than the target network. Distributed Denial of Service attacks through a botnet work better just a ping flood alone as it is coming fro...

     In addition to Google.com, I chose to ping and traceroute CentralBank.ie (Ireland) and WordlStandards.eu (Europe). Ping Activity      For Google, there were four packets sent as well as four packets received, none were lost. Response speed ranged from 43 to 107 milliseconds with the average being 63 milliseconds. Central Bank also had both four packets sent and received with none lost. Response speed for this one ranged from 49 to 58 milliseconds with the average being 53 milliseconds. Lastly, the ping on WorldStandards also resulted in four packets both sent and received with no loss. Response speed for World Standards ranged from 116 to 119 milliseconds with the average being 117 milliseconds. Traceroute Activity      None of the sites failed before reaching their destinations, but there was a lot of time outs, especially with the foreign sites. With Google, the traceroute travelled through 11 routers with two timing out before reach...