1. INTRODUCTION It is without a doubt that economically developed nations have over the years profited from the wealth Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has provided. Even with the multiples of opportunities and economic expansion ICT has brought to these countries, developed nation’s such as the United States, United Kingdom (UK) and Australia have had to battle the negative effect of ICT. This has left a lot of institutions and sectors vulnerable to cybercrime and cyberattack. As
Ransomware is a type of malware designed for direct revenue generation, which restricts access to a computer system and demands some form of compensation or ransom in exchange for data or functionality held hostage. It has become increasingly popular to malware authors and is considered as a type of “scareware” as users are being scared/intimidated into paying a fee (or ransom) and most victims paid the ransom in hope that their data would not be misused or exploited for other crimes. Ransomwares
stolen, such information can be used against us, affect user’s life. Therefore it is crucial to understand how to protect information from exploitations. Cyber criminals usually gain access to computers by planting malicious logic (like a virus or malware) into the net and waits for users to open the virus. Common ways a computer can become infected are: Opening an infected email attachment. Visiting a malicious website. Clicking on a malicious link. Inadvertently downloading a harmful program.
Through the years as technology become more embedded in our society the speed of information traveling increased exponentially and globally. Security breaches and computer virus have always been around from the start of the internet. The ability to acquire sensitive information has become a main stream commodity. Even capitalistic company wants to know everything that you do from; how you search the web to the different ways everyone lives there lives. The way people are stealing information is getting
personal benefits. Using and misusing data, network or resources in the workplace for personal gain. In some cases, data can be stolen from the organization using such devices causing loss or theft of data. Hence there is lack if control and potential malware threats (Pillay, Diaki et al. 2013). Trend Drivers for BYOD BYOD is gaining high popularity and growth which is evident from the Ovum’s research paper published in 2012. Respondents in the emerging, “high-growth” markets (including Brazil, Russia
Introduction Malware is a malicious software and act a single term to refer to virus, trojan horse, spy ware, worm and spam. It is design to harm to a standalone computer or a network computer. Type Of Malware Virus is a program that replicates by being copied to another program, computer or documents. It can be send toward via e-mail or downloaded file that person receive from the website that he download. Trojan horse is a program that harmful to the computer or data in such a way that it can
types of computer viruses and explore new and current popular computer virus and threats. Even those that are very familiar with computing often have issue and are very unclear with terms which are related with computer virus, worms, Trojan horse, malware, botnets, DDoS, hackers, pharming, phishing, ransomware, and spoofing. One reason why it is hard for people to understand the terms is that it is impossible to say in all given circumstances if a given program is malicious or not. Even when it comes
Identify and Mitigate Malware and Malicious Software on a Windows Server Kaplan University Professor Mathew North, Ph.D. IT542 – 01: Ethical Hacking and Network Defense Unit 4 Lab July 09, 2013 Introduction The lab consist of using the AVG scan in the virtual machine to detect the different threats that were found which were moved to the virus vault. The window defender was used to verify the different infections and spyware that were found in the virtual machine. Malware and spyware are
clients can keep up a high level of consistent availability to the Internet. Clients are plagued by a steady stream of toolbar assistants, cursor liveliness, program modules, and different kinds of programming they are provoked to introduce. The term malware (another way to say "malicious program design") have been normally used to allude to the conventional dangers postured by toxicities, Trojans, and worms. In the sequence of the most recent couple of years, the dangers presented by various different
have even become somewhat of a necessity in our schools. This in essence has exposed all areas of our lives to the risks involved with the use of laptops. One of the main ways in which laptop security faces risk is from malware attacks through the web. These days, malware attacks can come from legitimate websites that have been infected due to their poor security. Unsuspecting individuals visit these legitimate websites, which have been in the form of fortune 500 company sites and government