Networks year 10

Networks year 10

1. Network threats

   • Identity fraud
     • When a hacker attempts to use another persons identity to commit a crime.
   • Malware
     • Software thats meant to gain access to your computers information.
   • Phising
     • Making out that you're a genuine website and you use this to try and gain information of people.
   • Trojan
     • Computer program hidden within the shell of another program.
   • Virus
     • Software that attaches its self to a computer program and infects the rest of the computer.
   • Hacker
     • A person who gains unauthorsed access to a network

2. Network security

   • Antivirus Software
     • Is a application used to prevent infections from any risks to the compiter or network.
   • Pen testing
     • Testing your own software by trying to hack your own security and trying to find any flaws in your netoworks security.
   • User access levels
     • Is where different permissions and accesses on a network.
   • Encryption
     • Mixes up the code or the text so unauthorised users cant access or read it.

3. By Alesha Tedstill