Security Threats

Security Threats

1. Passive Attack

   • Passive attack is a network attack that in which a system is monitored and sometimes scanned for open ports and vulnerabilities

2. Insider Attacker

   • Is when someone within a organisation exploits their network access to steal information

3. Denial Of Service Attack DDos

   • DDos is where a hacker is trying to stop users to access apart of a network or websites

4. Spyware

   • Spyware is a software that enables a user to convert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data convertly from their hard drive.Which means that is looks at what the user is doing

5. Ransomware

   • Ransomware is a kind of cyber attack that involves hackers trying to take control of a computer system.

6. Scareware

   • It purposely tells the user that they have a virus/malware installed on their computer and the user has to install other software or pay the hacker to remove the malware

7. Virus

   • Viruses attach themselves to certain files (such as .exe which are executable files like programs) and run scripts of code.They spread by users coping

8. Phising

   • Phising is when crimals send emails or texts to someone claming to be a well known business.This is done to aquire some senstive/important information.For example bank acount details
     • To stop this you can check the URL link of the website to see if it starts with https://www. which means that every detail that you enter is encrpted