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 with useless traffic,making the network extremely slow or completely in accessible

2. Active Attack

   • When someone attacks a network with malware or other planned attacks.

3. Scareware

4. Spyware

5. Viruses

6. Passive Attack

   • When someone intercepts any sensitive information they find by monitoring data travelling on a network

7. Worm

8. Botnet

9. Insider Attack

   • When someone within a company/organisation steals information by exploiting their network access

10. Brute Force attack

    • When passwords are guessed through trial and error by using automated software to produce hundreds of likely passwords.

11. Ransomware

12. Trojan Horse

    • Malware that is disguised as legitimate software.Instead of replicating themselves,users install them without realising