Cyber-crime - Om & Ammu
Vocab
Phishing Scam- A person who tries to get information from you by sending you false information to open or enter personal data into
Antivirus Software - A type of software that helps in detecting, protecting, and discarding viruses that are harmful to your device.
Virus- This is a program designed to take over or have some sort of control over others devices
DDoS Attack - When multiple systems ping or send requests to a targeted system to over whelm the system with too many requests for the targeted system to handle.
DDoS Attack
Phishing Scam
Data Breach
On November 22,2019 T mobile had a 1 million $ data breach that exposed data that included phone numbers, T-mobile account numbers, and billing addresses. The hacker was good enough to hack into T-Mobiles data servers and gained access to the data. This type of data breach is considered theft.
Amazon Web Services was attacked by DDoS for 8 hours in 2019. The DDoS attack was intended as a malicious attack and the hacker was arrested.
On November 10, 2019, there was a major scam in coffee shops and public locations with people gambling with their personal data by accessing the fake Hot Spot, by which information such as passwords, usernames, and bank information was exposed. Recent studies have shown that more than 70 percent of users connect to free public WiFi. More than a third have entered passwords, a fifth have used credit cards and 31 percent have accessed online banking, which provides a threat of money and highly important information being leaked.
Firewall - Software that filters harmful or malicious content, usually installed and used by servers and routers.
click to edit
click to edit
click to edit
SSL / TSL- these stand for Secure Sockets layer / Transport Layer Security, and this essentially cryptographic protocols designed to provide communication of security over a computer network.
