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Explain the Types of Cyber Attacks.

Explain the Types of Cyber Attacks.

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Kavungya
(a) Technical attack
- An attack perpetrated using software and systems knowledge or expertise
(b) Nontechnical attack
- An attack in which a perpetrator uses chicanery or other form of persuasion to trick people into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that compromise the security of a network
(c) Common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs)
- Publicly known computer security risks or problems; these are collected, enumerated, and shared by a board of security-related organizations (cve.mitre.org)
(d) Denial-of-service (DoS) attack
- An attack on a Web site in which an attacker uses specialized software to send a flood of data packets to the target computer with the aim of overloading its resources
(e) Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
- A denial-of-service attack in which the attacker gains illegal administrative access to as many computers on the Internet as possible and uses these multiple computers to send a flood of data packets to the target computer
(f) Malware
- A generic term for malicious software
(g) Virus
- A piece of software code that inserts itself into a host, including the operating systems, to propagate; it cannot run independently but requires that its host program be run to activate it
(h) Worm
- A software program that runs independently, consuming the resources of its host from within in order to maintain itself and propagating a complete working version of itself onto another machine
(i) Trojan horse
- A program that appears to have a useful function but that contains a hidden function that presents a security risk
Kavungya answered the question on May 9, 2019 at 14:16

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