Network Security Threats

Network Security Threats

1. DDoS

   • Where a hacker tries to stop users from accessing a part of a website or a network.Commonly, most attacks involve flooding the network

2. Active attack

   • Someone attacks a network with malware or other planned attacks.

3. Scareware

4. Spyware

5. viruses

6. Passive attack

   • Someone monitors data travelling on a network and intercepts any sensitive information.

7. Worm

8. Botnet

9. Insider attack

   • Someone you should "trust" giving themselves access to steal information.

10. Brute force attack

    • A type of an active attack, used to get any available information by unlocking passwords through trial and error. They use automated software to create hundreds of possible passwords.

11. Ransomeware

    • People take your data and personal information and force you to pay them a certain amount of money to get them back.

12. Trojan horse