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Level 3
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1HackingGaining unauthorised access to or control of a computer system
- 2Penetration testerPeople who are paid to legally hack into computer systems with the sole purpose of helping a company identify weaknesses in their system.
- 3DoS attackThe criminal makes a network resource unavailable to its intended users.
This is done by flooding the targeted machine or website with lots of requests in an attempt to overload the system. - 4DDoS attackThis uses the same concept as a DoS attack, but this time it is multiple computers making the attacks at the same time.
It is a lot harder to:
Stop the attack by simply blocking a single source
Identify who is responsible, as lots of machines are making requests, many of them because they are infected by malware - 5Brute Force AttackA form of attack that makes multiple attempts to discover something (such as a password).
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- Includes ( Hacking, Penetration tester, DoS attack, DDoS attack, Brute Force Attack).
- Created by
- Grace Rutland · Mar 2021
- Updated
- Mar 22, 2021
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