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• Types of Social engineering

  • Baiting
  • Influencing and manipulating people
  • Phishing
  • Pretexting
  • Quid Pro Quo
  • Scare ware
  • Shoulder Surfing
• Social engineering


  People trying to take your personal info. (bank Details, address....)
• Phishing


  Making a copy of a website (Shane with personal details)
• Pretexting


  Making you confirm something fake by asking personal details
• Quid Pro Quo


  Calls random numbers pretending to offer help
• Scare ware

  Convinces users to download malicious software
• Shoulder Surfing


  Individual watches you whilst you are using a device in Public
• Types of malware


  • Worm
  • Trojan horse
  • Adware
  • Botnet
  • Ransomware
  • Spyware
  • Virus
• Worm


  Malicious Programme, that spreads copies of it self from device to device
• Trojan horse


  Software (seems valid) but it's malicious and allows another computer to take control of ur device
• Adware


  Software that shows an advert to the user
• Botnet


  Group of users internet connected devices which are running a bot
• Ransomware


  When they log you off then asks you to Pay to have access again
• Spyware


  Monitors, collects info of what you are doing on the device
• Virus


  A harmful software that replicates itself to another Programme
• Types of threats


  • Denial of service
  • Hacking
  • Malware
• Denial of service


  A deliberate attempt to Prevent users from accessing the services, DoS attack will come from a single computer sending multiple requests to the server
• Hacking


  When individual looks for a weakness in a computer system, tries to exploit it
• Black Hat


  Stealing data, causing Problem with the system
• Grey Hat


  Has Permission to attack and find weaknesses
• White Hat


  Attacks for fun than will fix for free
• Malware


  Software that has been designed to cause a security risk on a device or Computer network
• Exploit


  To take advantage of