Security threats

Security threats

1. Active attack

   • An active attack is a network exploit in which a hacker attempts to make changes to data on the target or data en route to the target

2. Passive attack

   • A passive attack is where a person monitors data travelling and intercepts any sensitive information. Sensitive information is anything private such as bank card details, confidential files.

3. Phishing

   • Phishing is an email that you recieve from somebody trying to be another company. This normall occurs with banking. For example a person will create a website called natwast but the real website is natwest, if the person is not the brightest they will click on the link and input there details so that the phisher can steal the money and the user has no control.

4. Brute force attack

   • A brute force attack is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption.

5. Denial of service attack (DDOS)

   • DDOS is an attack where a group of computers spam a company with loads and loads of data packets to slow there website down and they can find a loop whole.

6. Spyware

   • This is software that tries to get information about a person or company witconsumer's consent.hout them knowing, that may send information to another place without the

7. Inside attack

   • An insider attack is some body with an organisation that exploits there network access to steel information .
     • To prevent this you could restrict lower down users from accessing certain important files.

8. Ransomware

   • Ransomware is software that encrypts all of your files and demands the user to pay ransom otherwise there files will be locked.
     • To prevent this you might want to think about getting cyber security.