- a type a malware that modifies or replaces one or more existing progrmas to hide the fact that a computer has been compromised
- a DoS attack that uses a directed broadcast to create a flood of network traffic for the victim computer
- a person with little or no skill who simply follows directions to carry out attack without fully understanding the meaning of the steps performed
- an application that captures traffic as it travels across a network
- a network attack in which the attacker attempts to take over an existing connection between two network computers
- the amount of money a company loses due to downtime, either intentional or unintentional
- intercepting communication sent via a wired connection
- software that gathers user info through the user's internet connection without the user's knowledge
- an e-mail or instant-message spoofing fraud attempt that targets specific orgaization, seeking unauthorized access to confidential data
- any event that results in a violation of any of the CIA security tenets
- teams of people organized to identify and responf to security incidents. an IRT is respnsible for minimizing the impact of incident and collection any necessary evidence to analyze the incident
- a type of attack in which one person, program, or computer disguises itself as another person, program, or computer to gain access to some resource
- a type of fraud in which an attckers attemps to trick the victim into providing private information
- a computer attacker who is of auerage abilities and could one day become a black hat.
- a software tool that collects information about any known weaknesses that exist on a target computer or network
- a type of window that appears on top of the browser windows. pop-ups generally contain ads. although pop-ups are not strictly adware, many adware programs use them to interact with users
- a DoS attack that fills up a computer's connection table by sending a flood of unacknowledged connection requests. once the connection table fills up, the computer cannot respond to any new legitimate connection requests
- an atack in which the attacker captures data packets from a network and retransmits them to produce an unauthorized effect
- unwanted e-,ail or instant messages
- a software program that enables a computer to monitor and capture network traffic, including password and data