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Exploring the Spectrum of Cyber Attacks .pptx
- 1. CYBER SECURITY By Dr VKAVITHA Associate Professor Dept of Computer Science with Cognitive Systems Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science Coimbatore
- 2. CYBER SECURITY Cybersecurity isa way to protect your devices and services connected to the internet from threats. The threats are from Spammers, cybercriminals, and hackers. Cybersecurity is protection against phishing schemes, data breaches, Identity theft, and ransomware attacks.
- 3. CYBER SCURITY In theera of digitalisation, where data is everything. It is a must to know that privacy is very much vulnerable. We often hear about a lot of cybercrimes these days, which has affected millions of people. Cybersecurity is not just for organizations and business. It is very much important for personal gadgets like Mobile phones, tablets, and personal computers.
- 4. ROLE OF CYBER SECURITYENGINEER A cybersecurity Engineer is the one who manages and creates the hardware, security and software to protect the network. Mainly the Cybersecurity engineer merges electrical engineering and computer science in cyberspace.
- 5. ETHICAL HACKING The authorized practiceof hacking is Ethical Hacking. It is done to detect vulnerabilities in the organization's infrastructure, system security, identify Data breachers and network threats. Ethical hackers basically finds the weak aspects in the network which can be attacked by the hackers.
- 6. FIREWALLS Fencing your house safeguardsyour home and keeps intruders under control; likewise, firewalls are utilized to get PC protection. Firewalls are network security frameworks that restrict unapproved entrance to an organization.
- 7. INFORMATION SECUTRITY Information security isa set of practices designed to carry private data secure from unauthorized access and alteration for the duration of storing or transmitting from one location to another. Information security is designed and carried out to protect the print, digital, and other private, sensitive, and private data from unauthorized persons. It can be used to secure data from being misused, acknowledgment, destruction, alteration, and disruption.
- 8. Challenges to Cybersecurity WhileCybersecurity has a lot of features and advantages, it also has some challenges Cost and Time Implementing and maintaining cybersecurity systems can be − expensive and time-consuming for organizations. Complexity Cybersecurity systems can be complex to manage and maintain in − the longer run. Constant Evolution Cyber threats are constantly evolving, which require the − Cybersecurity solution to be consistently adaptive to these threats. Limited Effectiveness Despite maximum efforts, complete protection from − cyberattacks is impossible to attain.
- 9. CYBERATTACK A cyberattack isan intentional attempt to access a computer system, network, or digital device without authorization to steal, alter, or destroy data. Cyberattacks can be motivated by petty theft or acts of war.
- 10. TYPES OF CYBERSECURITY ATTACKS
- 11. COMPUTER VIRUS A computervirus or simply a virus is a malicious program that attaches itself to a resource in the system and becomes active when that file is shared or accessed within the system. It is similar to a biological virus, which needs a host to become active and cause harm
- 12. COMPUTER WORM A wormis a malware program that is slightly different from a virus in functioning. It spreads by creating copies of itself when it is accessed, and this causes an increase in memory and boot usage. The processing of the system slows down and this causes severe harm to the system
- 13. TROJAN HORSE The Trojanor Trojan Horse is a malware program which is not identified by the user at first. It looks like a normal working file, but in reality, it is disguised as a resource. This is similar to the story of the Trojan horse tale of Greek Mythology, which is the basis of the name “Trojan”.
- 14. COMPUTER BOMBS A computerbomb is a malware program that works like a time bomb, and it needs certain conditions in order for it to get into action. Unlike any other malware, it only activates once all conditions are met. The effects can include illegal access, deleting data, corrupting information, etc.
- 15. EMAIL SPOOFING Spoofing refersto the activity of faking the identity and address of the sender of emails. This can take place by changing domain names, hiding address information, and using keywords like “critical” and “urgent” for the user to be trapped in these fake emails. Once active, they can cause a variety of damage to the system
- 16. EMAIL SPOOFING Spoofing refersto the activity of faking the identity and address of the sender of emails. This can take place by changing domain names, hiding address information, and using keywords like “critical” and “urgent” for the user to be trapped in these fake emails. Once active, they can cause a variety of damage to the system
- 17. LAPTOP TRAPDOOR This type of cyberattackincludes using a backdoor strategy to pass important and unauthorized information to outside entities without the consent of proper authorities. This can involve any loopholes in the security systems to give such information to external agents
- 18. DENIAL-OF-SERVICE (DOS) This type ofattack uses irregular and excessive traffic and redirections on a user’s webpage, thus restricting access to the main resources required by the user. This is mainly caused by visiting unauthorized websites and pages which can flood with lots of advertisements in a short time frame. It has an evolved model as well, which is known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
- 19. This type ofattack is characterized by the intervention of a third-party entity between a private network of users/nodes. This third-party entity can gain access to data and network assets, and this may lead to loss of data as well as illegal access MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE (MITM)
- 20. This type ofattack is characterized by the insertion of malicious SQL commands inside the website backend codework. This action leads to the website working without the user’s interference on its own. This can cause major harm to the user’s private information SQL INJECTION
- 21. This type ofattack is caused when an outside entity changes the script of the website, generally introducing malware into the script, mostly in the java script file. This redirects the user to a malicious website and causes a variety of problems for the user CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS)
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