Malware

like its name spies on your behavior and sends this data to a remote computer. You also have Adware which like its name as well targets you for ads and different advertisements. You’re more harmful forms of viruses are Trojans which is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software (Kaspersky Lab, 1997-2015) Trojans basically make the user/s believe one thing have them download something from their site which is really downloading that Trojan. What that Trojan then does is possibly

Cybercrime is defined as the use of the Internet using the computer either as a tool or a targeted victim to commit crimes. Cybercrime is difficult to determine and does not have a clear classification system and uses two dimensions. The computer as a tool and the target consist of the first dimension. The second dimension consists of the crime itself: person, property, and victimless/vice (ebook crime) In the first dimension cybercrime is divided into two categories. The first, being the use of

As mentioned previously, we believe that the APT involved in our attack is in the weaponized phase of an attack. In this phase, the APT will used the information he or she obtained from the reconnaissance phase to develop a weapon (i.e. malware with an additional payload) specifically designed to target our weaknesses. The common method for delivery is email; however, it could be a fake website that users are redirected to. For example, users access their social media accounts, such as Facebook

Hackers are one of the main causes of the privacy and security issue on the internet. To understand how to lessen the threat of hackers on the internet one must first know how a person becomes a hacker. While there may be “no consistent, widely accepted theories or theoretical frameworks in the literature as to why hackers emerge and evolve, and therefore no clear, effective guidance on what to do to prevent talented computer-savvy young people from becoming hackers or criminals” (Zengchuan, Qing

Introduction Cybersecurity is defined as the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or measures taken to achieve this. (Oxford Dictionaries) I researched, and found a lot of new cybersecurity technology, but in this paper, I narrowed it down to four. All of these technologies seem like they will have a huge impact on the cybersecurity field as a whole. Cybersecurity is important because we would not have much of anything in cyberspace if nothing was

Who had jurisdiction for this matter? Was it the police in the United States where the victim (Citibank) was located? Was it the cops in St. Petersburg where the suspect carried out the alleged offense? Or was jurisdiction held in Israel or Finland, perhaps, where large sums of cash were electronically delivered to fraudulent accounts. Levin never physically entered the United States to commit the crime. He left no fingerprints or DNA and was never marked by an exploding dye pack. Importantly

Malware : Commonly referred to as malicious software that is designed to interrupt computer functionality and/or to gain access to sensitive data. As an umbrella term, malware includes things such computer viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other malicious programs. Malware can and often is designed to create access ways into an adversary 's computer or to attack it, sometimes both. Therefore, using malware is seen as an instrument of hostility as it can

Have you ever wondered about today’s ongoing problem with computer-based threats? There are many online complications today with these new generations forming. Computer viruses, malware, identity theft, online predators, cyber bullying, phishing, and hacking (black hat and white hat) are only a few problems going on online, yet they cause so many problems and threats. To begin with, computer viruses are types of malicious software programs that replicate themselves by changing other computer programs

In 2014, seventy million customer’s data were stolen by hackers (Yang, & Jayakumar, 2014). Hackers also made away with about £20 million (US $25.4 million) of bank customers. Germany Vodafone, a mobile telecommunication company revealed that two million customer’s information was illegally downloaded by hackers (BBC News, 2013) while in Japan, JTB, a tourism company says hackers stole eight million sensitive customer data (Wanklyn, 2016). While most hacking that has made the news, involve big businesses

In today’s world, we see many systems getting infected with malware and threats that are just feeding off the user’s actions. However, we must focus on preparing ourselves for these malicious threat agents that are hidden and very hard to see in the open. Moreover, we should be ready for the next gigantic attack on our systems which brings me to this article where the creator of it explains that he has developed an open source tool named rapid_env. This analysis tool stands for rapid environment