Types of Attacks
Risks of Software
Integrity Attacks
Denial of Service Attacks
Privacy Attacks
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A malicious computer program can scramble your disk and remove all your files.
What is an integrity attack?
100
Operation system malfunctions.
What is computer crashing?
100
You suffer from the consequence of information being lost forever
What is the risk of having no back up?
100
Intended to prevent you from fully using your computer's capabilities.
What is the meaning of denial of service attacks?
100
Effect of making information that should be private available to others who are not allowed by you to have access to it.
What is the definition of privacy attacks?
200
Have the effect of making information that should be private available to others who are not allowed by you to have access to it.
What is a privacy attack?
200
Malware can be sent together with the software.
What is harking?
200
the attacker.
What is a culprit?
200
Most of the time the do not do ____.
What is permanent damage.
200
Privacy attacks are not _____.
What is recoverable.
300
Intend to prevent you from using your computer's full capabilities.
What is a denial of service attack?
300
Bad RAM, failing hard drives, overheating processors, poorly written drivers, application incompatibilities, operating system bugs.
What is system instability?
300
It has it's name because it damages the integrity of your computer system.
What is the meaning behind integrity attacks?
300
In some situations denial of service attacks are very ____.
What is dangerous.
300
Privacy attacks are not ____ detected.
What is easily.
400
Sensitive data can make its way over the network and can be accessible to others.
What is eavesdropping, sniffing, snooping?
400
Your PC being full of junk.
What is the cause of your computer becoming slow?
400
The computer's hardware and peripherals.
What is an integrity attack directed towards?
400
In some situations denial of service attacks are very ____.
What is damaging.
400
Long distance calling cards are a prime target for such attacks, usually in airports. The thieves position themselves to be able to see when you type in your access code and make a call. Later, they steal the card and use it to run up huge long distance bills. Some especially daring criminals just borrow the card and later return it after using it, claiming to do you a favor by returning the card you supposedly dropped.
What is an example of a non-computer related privacy attack?
500
One of the most common types of cyber attacks, where the hackers gain access to the computer and the network resources by gaining password control.
What is password based attacks?
500
Having to many things on your computer.
What is an overload of files?
500
An integrity attack could exploit a known deficiency in a display driver to burn out a computer's display.
What is an example of an integrity attack?
500
The attacker may display an obnoxious message on the screen of your computer every five seconds, or append a derogatory statement about you to every file on your disk. She may consume every free byte on your disk, leaving no space for you to save the files you have just been editing.
What is an example of denial of service attacks?
500
A privacy attack could watch your keyboard and record the keystrokes you type when you give your password to log on to an online service.
What is an example of privacy attacks?
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