Security threats

Security threats

1. Passive attack is where somewere monitors data traviling on a network and intecepts any nsensitive information they find

2. active attack When someone attacks a network with malware

3. Scareware is tells the user their computer is infected with loads of viruses to scare them into following malicoius links or paying for problems to be fixed

4. denial service attack is where a hacker tries to stop users from accesing a part of network website.most of the attack involv flooding the network with useless traffic making a network extremly low or completly inaccessible

5. passive when someone monitors data traveling on a network and intercept any sensitive.Best thing to protect from passive attack is to encrypt it.

6. Ransomeware is a type of malware that uses encryption to look a user out of their files

7. Spyware secretly monitors user actions key press and sends info to the hacker.

8. Brutal forced attack is a type of acitive attack used to gain information by craking passwords through trials and error.

9. trojans are malware disguised as legimate software unlike viruses and worms trojans.

10. viruses worms attach to certain files users spread them by coping infected files and active them by opening infected files .and for worms