Computing

Computing

1. Malware - Malware is software that has been purposely developed to damage, disrupt or take control of computer systems.

2. Social engineering - Social engineering techniques manipulate people into giving away confidential and personal information.

3. Brute-force-attack - when all possible password combinations are systematically tried, with the hope of getting it right.

   • User access levels - control which part of the network users can access

4. DDoS - when requests come from many resources so you cannot just block a single IP address.

   • Outsider attack - by an illegitimate, external user

5. DoS - when a network resource becomes deliberately overloaded with unnecessary requests, preventing it from responding normally.

6. Passive attack - data is monitored e.g wiretrap

7. Inside attack - by someone within the organisation.

8. Active attack - data is modified e.g malware.