The purpose of this research paper is to inform people of the dangers of Internet security threats, and also to provide insight in to how to protect your computer from these threats. There are vast amounts of ways your computer can become compromised via the Internet. Luckily there are also quite a few different ways to protect your computer, which will be discussed in this paper.
Internet Security Threats:
Having some sort of security on your computer will help protect your computer from harmful malicious software that could possibly attack your computer while surfing the Internet. To be sure that your Internet access or anyone else’s for that matter isn’t compromised is would be strongly advised that you ensure that your computer is protected. (Publishing., 2012).
Mr.John Wylder, and several our Information Technology executed created a list of threats that could do harm to Web sites (Merkow, 2000). The threats that they found will can be found below.
Data Destruction- Data Destruction is very harmful, because it can wipe out all the data on a website even if the website is encrypted (Merkow, 2000).
Interference- Just as the name suggest, Interference is when Web site data is being overloaded with data that originally wasn’t included, thus tricking the server (Merkow, 2000).
Modification- Modifying data for a particular website (Merkow, 2000)
Internet Threats Continued….
Misrepresentation- The kind of electronic posturing that is the source of so many stories about bogus Web sites, where the perpetrator hands out false credentials, perhaps creating a counterfeit Web site to siphon off traffic intended for a legitimate destination (Merkow, 2000).
Repudiation- The denial on the part of a consumer or cus...
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...false negatives to occur (Merkow, 2000). Subversion errors are more complex and tie in with false negative errors (Merkow, 2000). The intruder could then violate the system's operational security constraints (Merkow, 2000). This may be discovered by a human operator examining the logs from the intrusion detector, but it would also appear that system still seems to be working correctly (Merkow, 2000).
Also the purchase of Anti-Virus software will aid in the protection of your computer. Products such as Norton, or Avast are a couple examples of Anti- Virus software that will help protect your computer.
Conclusion
I hope this research paper gives you a little help in knowing what kind of threats can attack your computer. Also by providing you with ways to protect your computer from these threats I’m hoping you will equip your computer with the defenses needed.
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