How to Prevent Computer Security Threats
How to Prevent Computer Security Threats THREAT TO SECURITY: A threat is defined as a computer program, a person, an accident, or events that violate (or break) the security system. A threat causes loss of data and attacks data privacy. The realization or understanding of a threat is known as an attack. Threats may be categorized by the type of activity or by the type of the attacker. Three are four general categories of attacks: Interruption: This type of attack does not allow authorized users to access the system. This type of attack is also known as a denial of service attack. In this type of attack, some components of a system are destroyed or become unavailable. For example, a hard disk may be destroyed, or a communication line is cut off, etc. Interception: In this type of attack, unauthorized persons or programs can access computer resources (such as important information stored on I computer) The attacker can illegally copy some important data programs. The data can...