Online have gave us a lot of convenient such as making online transactions on paying bills, online shopping, look for informations, etc. Sadly the online security had become an issue recently. As for the most famous threat is Trojan attack, Daniel G. James analyzes that the Trojan attack had been increase, from 2004 till 2006.
Trojan Infections from 2004 - mid of 2006
Statistical Analysis of Internet Security Threats by Daniel G. James
Online Threats is separated to 2 categories which are technical attacks and non technical attacks. Technical attack basically is the need of knowledge to create certain software or program to form a threat. Whereby non technical attacks is using tricks to make users to disclose certain information the attacker wants.
Virus, Trojan horse, worm, Macro Virus are all technical attacks. During May 2000, there was 1 famous worm which named “I LOVE YOU”, where a small piece of code attached to the email (Business Software Alliance) . When user opens the file, it will send an email to everyone in the address book, subsequently causes the victims’ machines to be damaged by overwrite the important files (Wikipedia). This worm started from
One of the most famous non technical attack threats is Phishing. Phishing is intent to cheat a user for sensitive information by using a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Bank always been targeted in Phishing, an example of phishing email are such as below.
From all this threats, the attackers intent to get the private information of ours such as our user name and password for our accounts or access code and pin code for our credit cards. Therefore in order to enjoy the internet services, we users have to always take precautions on every items obtained from the internet. We must always predict the unpredictable. Our data will be safe if we take full precautions on all type of attacks from the internet.
-William Hong Weei Loon-
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