Abstract:
The internet put the rest ofthe world at the reach ofpersonal computer. In the same way, it is
also made personal computers reachable by the rest ofthe world. Good News and Bad News!
Over the last decade, the internet has been subject to widespread ofsecurity attacks. Besides
the classical terms, new ones had to be found in order to designate a large collection ofthreats:
Worms, break-ins, hackers, crackers, hijacking, spoofing, man-in-the-middle, passwordsniffing, denial ofservice and so on. With the sequence of cyber-attacks which were targeted
various Government websites, during the recent past; it hampers the effectiveness ofsecurity
research and practices carried out developing such websites.
This project focuses on security issues of the web application, which is being used by the
Department ofNational Archives, which is the ICA-AtoM. The security features ofICA-AtoM
are not adequate to withstand ongoing cyber threats and attacks. Being the last resort to find
most ofthe valuable documents, papers orjournals publish throughout the history, the online
repositories at National Archives should be essentially safeguard against the malicious hackers.
Moreover the focus of this project includes discussing in detail the ICA-AtoM related
vulnerabilities and how they are exploited. This converge the definitions of various hacking
practices, it’s implication on the ICA-AtoM.
This paper aiming for a better understanding of the subject matter. In the paper we discuss
some ofthe major actual known attacks. Besides the description of each attack and way they
are carried on. We also discuss the related means ofprevention, detection and/ or defense such
attacks though various security techniques introducing to the system.
