Network security threats

Network security threats

1. DDos

   • when a network become deliberatley overloaded with unnecessary requests

2. phishing

   • when you get an email or text that tricks you into putting your information

3. virus

   • insert themselves in normal programs viruses can replicate themselves and transfer from one computer to another

4. trojan horse

   • Gains access to a computer by pretending to be a legitimate software

5. worm

   • spreads like viruses but do not require human intervention. they attach themselves to network tools and spread automatically

6. brute force attack

   • Gaining unauthorised access to a network by using a computer program to try all possible password combinations until the correct password is found

7. spyware

   • records the activity on your computer such as keystrokes, thereby logging your passwords for instance and then sending the data back over the network to attack instigator