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5.3 Threats
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- 1Phishing- Misleading individauls or organisations into parting with their confidental and personal data to commit fraud.Hacking: Not all hacking is external, as employees aslo hack their own company sytems. This is includes looking at files or locations to which they do not have right access; creating, modyfing or deleting files without permission; or defacing web pages.
- 2Trojan- Introducing a piece of code which, when certain conditions are met, will carry out an action which will be detrimental to the system.Interception: when the data packets on the internet are intercepted by a third party and copied, edited or transfered to a new locaiton.
- 3EavesDropping: Can refer to interception, but is particulary listening to communication traffic not intended for the reader or listener such as email, instant messaging, faxing or video conferencing.Data theft- Illegaly removing copies of personal or company data from information systems.
- 4Social Engineering- The manipulation of individuals to trick them into giving sensitive information, for example, claiming to be from IT department and asking for a password and username to check whether the PC has a virus.
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- Flashcards on 5.3 Threats, created by Mikolaj Kepinski on 21/11/2017.
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