ICT threats

Phishing scams

Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trust worthy entity in an electronic communication. Communication purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or it administrators is commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out email spoofing or instant messaging and if often directs users to enter detail of a fake websites whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to decetive users. And exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies to attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.

  Denial of service attacks (DOS)  

An attempt to make a computer or network resources unavailable to its intended users. Although this means to carry out, motives for and targets of a dos attack may vary, is generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person, or multiple people to prevent an internet site of service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporally or indefinitely. Perpetrators of dos attacks typically target sites of services hosted on high profile web services such as banks, credit card payments gateways, and even root name servers.

Hacking

Hacking means finding out weaknesses in established systems and exploiting them. A computer hacker is a person who finds out weaknesses in the computer and exploits it. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protests or challenges. The sculpture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the computer underground but it is now an open community. While others use a word hacker exists that are not related to computer security, they are rarely used in mainstream context. They are subject to lo