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Cybercrime (Good (SSL (Secure Socket Layer: Ensures that data sent or…
Cybercrime
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TLS
Transport Layers Security: The process in which private data is kept confidential and private while being moved across the internet.
AntiVirus Software
Usually keeps big lists of known viruses and scans your computer looking for the virus programs in order to get rid of them.
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DDoS Attack
Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Typically a virus installed on many computers (thousands) activate at the same time and flood a target with traffic to the point the server becomes overwhelmed.
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The website above explains the DDoS attack that Blizzard Entertainment had to deal with over the summer. Players would access this website to play games such as Overwatch and World of Warcraft. Basically, players all around the world had lag issues while playing, or were completely shut out from logging in. The servers were overcrowded with spam and pop-ups that caused the servers to overload and crash.
Data Breach
Panera Bread Breach
Researches estimate that more than 7 million Panera Bread customers that have used the online ordering service in the past 8 months have had their ordering data compromised.
Information such as names, email addresses, physical addresses, birthdays, ordering habits, food preferences, and the last four digits of credit card numbers were all compromised due to the data breach.
Firewall
Software that runs on servers (often routers) that only allows traffic through according to some set of security rules.
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