Unit 1 LO5 5.3 'Threats'

Unit 1 LO5 5.3 'Threats'

1. Phishing: Misleading individuals or organisations into parting with their confidential and personal data to commit fraud.

2. Hacking: Not all hacking is external, as employees also hack their own company systems. This includes looking at files or locations to which they do not have the right of access, or creating, modifying or deleting files without permission.

3. Trojan: Introducing a piece of code which when certain conditions are met, will carry out an action which will be detrmental to the system e.g. wping data.

4. Interception: When data packets on the internet are intercepted by a third party and copied, edited or transferred to a new location.

5. Eavesdropping: Can refer to interception, but is particularly listening to communication traffic not intended for the reader or listener such as email, instant messaging, faxing or video confrencing.

6. Data Theft: Illegally removing copies of personal or company data from information systems.

7. Social Engineering: The manipulation of individuals to trick them into giving sensitive information, for example claiming to be from the IT department and asking for a password and username to check weather the PC has a virus.

8. To protect against these and other attacks a range of security measures is available. Normally, these are broken down into physical security and digital security.