Flashcards
hacking
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1what is social engineeringsocial engineering is where you persuade someone to give you security information
- 2what is phishingwhere tons of emails are sent out as bait to get personal information
- 3what is an dos attackit is a dinal of service attack and it stop a machine from runing by flooding it with requests
- 4what is a ddos attackit is a distributed Denial of Service attack it attacks a whole network and then attacks one computer to take it offline.
- 5what is a physical attackfloods and earthquakes are an example of physical attacks where they can damage the pc and cause data loss
- 6virusesthey can copy all your documents and delete all your documents
- 7wormsA worm is similar to a virus but it has the ability to travel between computers without any human action
- 8trojansA Trojan is a program which carries a malicious payload but it cannot copy itself
- 9ransomwareThis is a relatively new type of threat which can be devastating for businesses or individuals.
- 10spywareThis is code which runs in a computer system to gather information and pass it on to other interested parties.