Computer Science Hacking and Security

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  • Created by: Finnnashh
  • Created on: 11-05-17 10:33
DoS Attack
A DoS hack is were a person is denied access to a website or anything in general on the internet this can be done in different ways like sending lots of useless traffic to a website to cause congestion
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Theft
A Theft Attack is were a person has personal possessions taken off them from a hacker like billing information or addresses
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Brute Force
This is a way that a hacker can hack an account by using random sequences of numbers and letters to find someones password until there password is found.
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Data Interception
this is another technique used by hackers to get your data packets to retrieve you personal possessions like passwords for websites billing information they do this through packet sniffers and it can be very threatening towards people with bad
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Data interception pt.2
security and people with very vulnerable data like weak passwords and billing addresses
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Phishing
This is where a hacker makes a normal well known website look real when they have just made a fake one to get your person infomation like if someone made a fake amazon website when you go to put in your billing information u would lose all your money
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Phishing pt.2
these website can normally be figured out by the url or if anything on the website doesn't work or is sketchy and people normally send out a link to one like if a hacker send you a website link that gives you a free £100 on amazon
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Malware
This is a piece of software that is designed to damage, disrupt or deny your computer access.
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A Theft Attack is were a person has personal possessions taken off them from a hacker like billing information or addresses

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Theft

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This is a way that a hacker can hack an account by using random sequences of numbers and letters to find someones password until there password is found.

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this is another technique used by hackers to get your data packets to retrieve you personal possessions like passwords for websites billing information they do this through packet sniffers and it can be very threatening towards people with bad

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security and people with very vulnerable data like weak passwords and billing addresses

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