Answer to Question #230016 in Computer Networks for shariq

Question

Write briefly about each of the following terms. What are the latest trends in the Market? Search on Internet and come up with the current commonly used anti-malwares and antiviruses (10 marks)

 

Vulnerability

Threat

Risk

Attack

Backdoor

Hoaxes

Password Crack

Brute force

Dictionary attack

Spoofing

Man-in the Middle

Spam

Virus

Worm

Trojan

Zombie

Answer 1

(1)Vulnerability - this is a weakness which can be exploited by a threat actor, such as an attacker to cross privilege boundaries for example, perform unauthorized actions within a computer system.

(2) Threat - is a potential violation of security.

(3) Risk - is defined as the potential for loss or damage when a threat exploits a vulnerability.

(4) Attack - these are actions that could cause it to occur must be guarded against (or prepared for).

(5) Backdoor - these are means to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypass the system’s customary security mechanisms.

(6) Hoaxes - is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat.

(7)Password crack - these are various measures used to discover computer password.

(8)Dictionary attack - is method of breaking into a password-protected computer, network or other IT resource by systematically entering word in a dictionary as a password.

(9)Brute force - is an attack in which hackers try a large number of possible keyboard password combinations to gain unauthorized access to a system or file.

(10)Spoofing - this is an impersonation of one entity by another, is a form of both deception and unsurpation.

(11)Man-in-the-middle - is a form of cyber attack is intercepted by an attacker using a technique to interject themselves into the communication process.

(12)Spam - is a digital junk mail: unsolicited communications sent in bulk over the internet or through any electronic messaging system

(13)Virus - is a malicious software program loaded onto a user's computer without the user's knowledge and performs malicious actions.

(14) Worm - is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

(15)Trojan - is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software.

(16)Zombie - is a computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker via a computer virus, computer worm, or trojan horse program and can be used to perform malicious tasks under the remote direction of the hacker

Latest trend in the marker are; IOT with 5G network

Current commonly used anti-malwares and antivirus

1.Bit defender

2.Webroot Secure Anyewhere for Mac

Kapersky

3.Norton

4.Trend Micro