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Unit 1.6 System Security - Forms of Attack
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- 1MalwareSoftware written specifically to infect computers to damage them or gain unauthorised access.
- 2Example of malware: Trojan Horse FilesInfect unprotected computers, disguised.
Passed on using peer to peer file sharing. - 3PhishingAttacker disguised as a trustworthy entity to gain personal information such as passwords or credit card information through emails.
- 4Brute forceAn automated software creating consecutive guesses using trail and error to decode passwords and keys.
- 5Denial of serviceFloods server with useless traffic so it can't reply to actual client-server requests therefore exploiting limitations in TCP-IP protocols and targeting a user.
- 6Data interception and theftConstantly monitors data streams to and from a target to gather sensitive computer based information.
- 7Example of data interception: Packet sniffer programEasily reads plain text traffic, takes passwords or configuration information.
- 8SQL Injection- code infection techniqueAttacks data driven applications if they aren't secured and when text is entered into boxes it's executed by the server. Used to view or change data in a database by inserting additional code creating a different search string.
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