Unit 1.6 system security

Unit 1.6 system security

1. Social Engineering

   • An attack that relies heavily on human interactions and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures.
     • Social engineers use techniques such as appeal to vanity, appeal to authority and appeal to greed are often used in social engineering attacks.
       • For example, the attacker might pretend to be a co- worker who has some kind of urgent problem that requires access to additional network resources.

2. Penetration Testing

3. Malware

4. Caesar Cipher

   • You have to move every letter two the right by 3 spaces.
     • A = X B=Y C=Z D=A etc.

5. Brute Force Attack

6. Denial of Service

   • an interruption in an authorised user's access to a computer network, typically one caused with malicious intent.

7. User Access Levels