Cyber attack, Can maliciously disable computers, steal data, or use a breached computer as a launch point for other attacks, Cybersecurity, The practice of protecting computer systems, networks, programs, devices and data from cyber attacks through both technological means and management processes, Phishing, Trick a user into clicking on a malicious link or opening an attachment than it is to locate and successfully exploit a vulnerability in an organisation’s network, Malware, Designed to do anything from collecting and stealing sensitive information to presenting unwanted ads to causing permanent damage to an infected machine, Denial of service, Exploiting a vulnerability in an application (causing it to crash) or by flooding a system with more data or requests than it is able to manage (rendering it unable to handle legitimate requests), Hacking, The act of identifying and then exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network, usually to gain unauthorised access to personal or organisational data, Ad clicker, A type of internet crime that occurs in pay-per-click online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having actual interest in the target of the link, Ransomware, Malware designed to use encryption to force the target of the attack to pay a ransom demand. Once present on the system, the malware encrypts the user’s files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key. Since modern encryption algorithms are unbreakable with the technology available, the only way to recover the encrypted files is to restore the data from a backup (if available) or to pay the random demand..

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