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Security Threats & Solutions
- Passwords
- Make sure they are long and have
capitals with numbers and have
symbols.
- dictionary attacks
- This is where a hacker uses every
single word in the dictionary to try
and hack your password. This can
include words from other passwords
that they have hacked
- Make sure your
password is not a
dictionary word
- Use a
different
password for
everything
- Phishing
- This is where someone pretends to
be your bank or from a random bank
and phone, text or email you saying
that you have won a prise or need to
update your information and they ask
for your bank details. After they have
these details they could rid your bank
account of all its money.
- Precautions
- Delete the email
- Phone or email your
bank to confirm the
message you got.
- Ignore it
- DoS
- dDoS
- A whole
group of
computers
attack one
server.
- Precautions
- There are none.
- This is where one
computer floods a
network with requests for
random web pages.
- Precautions
- Keep server up to date
- Physical Threats
- Physical threats are
things like earthquakes or
tidal waves that
potentially wipe out your
computer. it can also be
where you have your
computer stolen or a USB
stolen
- Precautions
- Have an off
site backup
- Run mirror servers
- Use an UPS
(uninterruptable
power supply)
- Viruses
- Precautions
- Keep
anti-virus
software up to
date
- Every time you
download something
from the internet, do
a virus scan of your
computer
- Viruses are programs that
get into your computer
and copy themselves
multiple times. This can
only happen after the
virus has attached to a file
and when it is opened
they can spead
- Worms
- They do things.