System Security

System Security

1. Malware

   • Pharming: Tries to change the IP adress so it sends it to a fake website, which is identical to the original desired website so they can take details of a user.
   • Viruses: A virus are small programs, which aim to cause physical harm to a computer can be used to hide, delete and duplicate files.
   • Spyware: Spyware's aim is used to spy on user to take their data like passwords and user names. A common piece of spyware in key logger.
   • Adware: Like spyware it doesn't physically delete or corrupt a system data. Instead its aim is to download and display unwanted adverts.

2. Phishing: Phishing is like literal fishing, it seeks to acquire sensitive information from a user eg. bank details.

3. Brute for attacks: Another emthod used by criminals to gain access into websites, where they trial and error details until gaining acccess.

4. Denial of Service Attacks: This method seeks tobring down websites by using up web servers resources. Increases the traffic put the website under pressure until the servers CPU and memory to be under so much strain until the server breaks down.

5. SQL Injections: SQL is where they can edit the SQL database so they can have assess to all users.