hacking

Question	Answer
what is social engineering	social engineering is where you persuade someone to give you security information
what is phishing	where tons of emails are sent out as bait to get personal information
what is an dos attack	it is a dinal of service attack and it stop a machine from runing by flooding it with requests
what is a ddos attack	it is a distributed Denial of Service attack it attacks a whole network and then attacks one computer to take it offline.
what is a physical attack	floods and earthquakes are an example of physical attacks where they can damage the pc and cause data loss
viruses	they can copy all your documents and delete all your documents
worms	A worm is similar to a virus but it has the ability to travel between computers without any human action
trojans	A Trojan is a program which carries a malicious payload but it cannot copy itself
ransomware	This is a relatively new type of threat which can be devastating for businesses or individuals.
spyware	This is code which runs in a computer system to gather information and pass it on to other interested parties.

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	Created by Derek johnson almost 9 years ago