Abstract
In February, 2002, the Internet security watch group CERT Coordination Center first disclosed to the global audience that global networks, including the Internet, phone systems, and the electrical power grid, are vulnerable to attack because of weakness in programming in a small but key network component. The component, an Abstract Syntax Notation One, or ASN.1, is a communication protocol used widely in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
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Kizza, J.M. (2015). Security Motives and Threats to Computer Networks. In: Guide to Computer Network Security. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6654-2_3
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