An assault against a computer system or network as a result of deliberate, intelligent action; for example, denial-of-service attacks, penetration and sabotage. Seeattacker,attack vector,brute force attack,dictionary attack,denial-of-service attack,replay attack,piggybacking,penetrationandsabotage. ...
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Show moreView article Chapter Perspective of DNA Computing in Computer Science Advances in Computers Book series2023, Advances in Computers Maria Fernandes, ... Francisco M. Couto Explore book 2.1 Inference attacks Inference attacks aim at discovering additional sensitive information based on a partial ...
On the other side of the coin, cyber warfare activities are very vulnerable to physical effects. If communications lines are severed, power is unavailable, environmental conditions cannot be maintained, or any of a number of other conditions cannot be met, the relatively fragile computer systems ...
A cyber attack is any malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer, computing system or computer network with the intent to cause damage. Cyber attacks aim to disable, disrupt, destroy or control computer systems or to alter, block, delete, manipulate or steal the data held with...
Malware is an umbrella term for any kind of malicious computer software that can damage computer systems and assist cybercriminals. The number of detected malware programs slightly decreased in 2024, but the threat is by no means going away. Ransomware Ransomware is a specific type of malware ...
A network connection on the Internet is composed of many different components or “layers”. Like building a house from the ground up, each layer in the model has a different purpose. The OSI model, shown below, is a conceptual framework used to describe network connectivity in 7 distinct la...
Stuxnet, a computer worm, discovered in June 2010, that was specifically written to take over certain programmable industrial control systems and cause the equipment run by those systems to malfunction, while feeding false data to systems monitors indica
Malware that abuses Office as a vector might attempt to break out of Office and save malicious components to disk. These malicious components would survive a computer reboot and persist on the system. Therefore, this rule defends against a common persistence technique. This rule also blo...
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