Brute forcing on secured shell servers emphasising the role of cyber forensics - a quali-quantitative study.

BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of cyber attacks threaten us personally and professionally. Cyber crimes include obtaining sensitive information (medical or financial) but may extend to organising heinous crimes including murders and aggravated sexual assaults. A major vector of cyber crimes is brute force attacks on secured shell servers. AIM OF STUDY: This research highlights the prevalence of the intensity of brute force attacks on secured shell servers via quali-quantitative analysis of cyber attacks. METHODOLOGY: The brute force attacks were recorded over a period of 20 days with the help of logs taken from five dedicated servers installed in a production environment. RESULTS: There were a minimum of 6470 and maximum of 22,715 attacks on a server per day. The total number of attacks on all the servers during the study period was 1,065,920. The brute force attacks were mainly targeted at the service network accounts. CONCLUSION: Growth of the field of cyber forensics is the optimal solution to prevent the malicious use of internet services and the commissioning of crimes by this means.

Diagnostic differentiation of wrist cut homicides via strikingly similar but two atypical rarities in projection of a specific criminal psyche in perpetrating a murder.

Wrist cut exsanguination is usually suicidal, but it can also be accidental. The lack of recognition of homicide wrist cut as a differential diagnosis is exemplified by its rarity. Authors present two cases of homicide wrist cut with strikingly similar attributes. Fatal head injuries were concomitantly present in both of them. There was usage of a characteristic bondage to incapacitate the victim in one of them. These wrists-cut murders imply the involvement of a specific criminal psyche that has yet to be discovered in literature. The presence of typical features of suicide wrist cut was another highlight of these murders. The personal and demographic details of the two victims also matched to some extent. The report outlines a method for distinguishing homicidal wrist cuts from suicidal and accidental wrist cuts. It will be of an exclusive help to deduce manner in isolated, fatal and non-fatal wrist cuts. Authors aim to initiate growth of literature on homicide wrist cut/s which is otherwise non-existent for them being rare entity/s. Similar fatalities have not been reported to the best claim of the authors.