Network Security Threats

Network Security Threats

1. Worm

   • They can can replicate themselves like viruses but unlike viruses they need no human intervention

2. Virus

   • They insert themselves into other programs and can replicate themselves and can spread to other computer. Viruses need human intervention to start the program normally in the form of a link.

3. Spyware

   • It is a passive attack that records activity on your computer and sending the data to the attacker.

4. Trojan horse

   • gains access to a computer by pretending to be real software and makes a unauthorised backdoor

5. Phishing

   • Normally an email or message where a victim thinks it is from an organisation that they can give sensitive information like their bank