I am going to give you the secret that has worked for me in relationships.
I didn't get into a lot of them because I spent my uni years not really committing.
But the few times I did get into them, they were awesome.
And I am going to tell you what worked for me.
- Tailgating is when an attacker follows an authorised person into a secure physical location.
- Pretexting is when an attacker calls an individual and lies to them in an attempt to gain access to privileged data.
I’m back. Let’s see what I learned over the past weeks.
- Malware is any code that can be used to steal data, bypass access controls or cause harm to a system.
- A backdoor is used to gain unauthorised access by bypassing the normal authentication procedures to access a system.
- Trojan horse carries out malicious operations by masking its intent. It disguises in form of an authentic software/program
- A worm replicates itself to spread from one computer to another. Unlike the virus, the worm doesn’t require a host program to run.
- In 2001, the code Red worm infected over 300,000 servers in just 19hrs.
- Social engineering is the manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.
- Quid pro quo is when an attacker requests personal information in exchange for something.
-Ransomware is designed to hold a computer captive until a payment is made.
- A root-kit is designed to modify the operating system to create a backdoor.
A virus is a computer program that when executed replicates and attaches itself to executable files by inserting its own code