Case project 2-1: Researching virus attacks Virus: Virus is a type of malicious software malware that replicates by reproducing itself to another program, document or computer boot sector. Current viruses: - Android/FakeApp - Backdoor-FFBM - HTML/Neutrino.e - HTML/Iframe.gen.w - Exploit-SWF.bd - Linux/Gates Damages caused by computer virus: A computer virus is designed to self-replicate, self-install, and attack the root functions and system of different programs without authorization or the user’s knowledge. Virusesmainly affect the root of a computer system.Virus can destroy and damage most important part of our hard drive, the boot sector, where information about all files has been stored. Viruses may alter directory paths and may change …show more content…
These attackers have proven to be a very successful way for a criminal to get inside of many organizations. Social engineer may call an organization’s for asking help and pretending them to be an employee who has forgotten their password. Help desk staff will frequently assist this helpless to log on remotely and reset their password for them, without ever verifying their identity. Different mail attachments and web links are being very popular among social engineering. Reasons people fall for social engineering techniques are: Social engineers make public dupe every day because of unawareness about social engineering techniques.Attackers use various social engineering techniques on innocent victims and their body posture, speech and confidence which convince people to trust upon engineers show confidence in drawing attention of people with practical approach. Social engineers offer something that creates excitement to grab offer and entice to put blind trust on attackers with confidence. They use rumor that seems convincing and adorable to users. They put valid reasons and people always listen to such requests. They take advantage of people’s fear and
At the Aim Higher College there have been recently discovered malware on the campus systems that are due to many recent attacks. I used an Anti-virus protection software called AVG on the computer systems on campus and ran a whole computer scan. The results came back very quick of numbers of malware being high and medium priorities that these should not be taken lightly. Furthermore, the scan found many viruses, Trojans, and malicious software and applications.
Bob is at the skate park, showing off his skills as a skateboarder. With one wrong move, he fell off of his skateboard, and his knee scrapped on the concrete, causing a big gash on his knee. A virus enters in the knee, and it has a mission. Its mission is to infect every organ in Bob's body.
When you see security guards, cameras, and full body scanners, your safety is not even close to assured in that building or location. Cryptographer and Privacy Specialist, Bruce Schneier, describes this idea as what he calls “Security Theater”. Schneier uses explanation of logical and emotional ideas that factor into our perception of how safe we are. His use of these appeals help him convey his purpose to the audience and effectively show the audience the importance of what Schneier is saying.
There are countless stories of companies falling victim to sophisticated social engineering attacks by some of the best cybercriminals. The war against companies and cyberspace marches on. It is important for organizations to understand what social engineering is, the various types of social engineering attacks, the reason for
There is also a set of programs that are related to viruses by virtue of their
Social Engineering: What It Is and How to Help Protect Yourself. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/socialengineering-whatis.aspx
In today’s days malware is designated as a software which aims to disturb a computer with the consent or permission of the owner. This term “Malware” is used by computer professionals to describe a varied forms of destructive, annoying and intrusive software code. This word “Malware” is used to indicate all types of malware which include a true set of viruses.
What is the “MALWARE”? A malware refers to software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system. In Spanish, "mal" is a prefix that means "bad," making the term "bad ware" .Malware includes viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Viruses, for example, can cause havoc on a computer's hard drive by deleting files or directory information. Spyware can gather data from a user's system without the user knowing it. This can include anything from the Web pages a user visits to personal information, such as credit card numbers.
Malicious software in short known as Malware. It is also known as computer Contaminant. Similar to biological parasite, malware also reside in a Host. Malware will get installed on host without user’s consent. Generally a software is considered malware based on the intent of the creator...
We live in one of the best times in world. An era where connection and communication is possible at anytime, anywhere, across the seven seas. It’s a beautiful time to be alive; having the world and all its people at the tips of your fingers is a phenomena that over a century ago would have been called magic. Technology is becoming our way of life and we must protect that digital life the same way we protect our real one. As of lately, internet frauds and social engineering has been sweeping the nation off its feet. It’s almost no challenge to hijack someone’s account when their information is floating around the online network. This paper is about the techniques of Social Engineering, examples of attackers and victims and how social engineering plays a big role in Internet Fraud.
According to Pfleeger (1997, p179) A virus is a program that can pass on malicious code to other nonmalicious programs by modifying them. The term virus arises because the affected program acts like a biological virus: modification of good programs is like a virus that infects other healthy subjects.
The Art of exploring various security breaches is termed as Hacking.Computer Hackers have been around for so many years. Since the Internet became widely used in the World, We have started to hear more and more about hacking. Only a few Hackers, such as Kevin Mitnick, are well known.In a world of Black and White, it’s easy to describe the typical Hacker. A general outline of a typical Hacker is an Antisocial, Pimple-faced Teenage boy. But the Digital world has many types of Hackers.Hackers are human like the rest of us and are, therefore, unique individuals, so an exact profile is hard to outline.The best broad description of Hackers is that all Hackers aren’t equal. Each Hacker has Motives, Methods and Skills. But some general characteristics can help you understand them. Not all Hackers are Antisocial, PimplefacedTeenagers. Regardless, Hackers are curious about Knowing new things, Brave to take steps and they areoften very Sharp Minded..
Virus is one of the most common malware. Unlike spyware, virus is largely designed to harm useful programs or wreck down an entire operating system. There are many ways through which virus may enter a computer. The most common way is via email attachments. A...
There are hundreds of thousands of viruses in the world and they usually designed for different purpose or objectives. Most of the computer viruses written in the early and mid-1980s were limited to self-reproduction and had no specific damage routine built into the code, but after more and more programmer acquainted with virus programming, they made viruses that can modify the data or even destroy them on infected computer. A co...
The social engineering is constantly on the rise as it is much easier to fool a person to give out his password rather than using complicated software’s to try and crack the passwords. The social engineering is all about exploiting human natural inclination to trust the people. Human being is very emotional and has natural tendency to trust others. People are generally helpful, especially to someone who is nice, knowledgeable or insistent.Security has now evolved all around a human’s judgment about who to trust and what to trust. It’s about one’s mastering the following skills:-