Network Security Threats

Network Security Threats

1. Spyware

   • it lossely defines as malicious software desingned to enter your computer

2. Trojan Horse

   • It is a type of malware that concearls its true content to fool a user

3. Worm

   • it is a type of malware that spread copies of itself from computer to computer

4. Phishing

   • Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal data

5. Virus

   • it is a type of malicious code or program written to alter the way a computer operates and is desinged to spread from one to another

6. D Dos

   • Distributed Network Attacks are often referred to as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. ... The DDoS attack will send multiple requests to the attacked web resource – with the aim of exceeding the website's capacity to handle multiple requests… and prevent the website from functioning correctly.

7. Brute force attack

   • Gaining unarthorised assess to a network by using a computer program to try all possible password combinatnions until the correct password is found