Network Security Breach Investigation: Vulnerabilities, Analysis, and Prevention

1) Use following resources, but you are free to choose from other sources as well.

Malware-Traffic-Analysis.net - 2016-10-31 Facebook-themed malspam: "Denuncia de recismo em seu perfil"

2) Provide a schematic of how the Network security breach has happened looking at different layers. Investigate what were the vulnerabilities which led to a successful breach. You need to provide evidences for your claims from the datasets and also you can refer to literature to support your findings.

3) Make sure you include your methodology of investigation with justification of why you use these methods. Explain the rationale behind your choices of methods to analyse the dataset.

4) Finally, provide discussion about your results and findings. You need to show you understand how the network security breach happened and what could be done to prevent / mitigate the breach. Your assignment should follow this structure (3000 words):

A) Introduction 10% (a short literature review on the related topics and attacks, the selected dataset and selected methodology of investigation)

B) Analysis 35% (the actual process of analysis and numerical results, all the steps which have been done in the process of analysing the dataset)

C) Discussion 30% (the explanation of the results, how to address those vulnerabilities, or how the attack could be enhanced or be more efficient)

D) Conclusion 15%

E) Bibliography 5%

F) Appendices 5% (if you use any code, you need to include it here, also screenshots of the tools that you used during analysis)